Oxygen shortage
Medical debt during second wave of Covid-19 pandemic forces Indian families into poverty
July 23, 2021
Delhi-based N. P. Banerjee completed his mother’s last rites in April. She had passed away at the age of 74 from Covid-19 complications. “She had diabetes, so the doctors were immediately concerned from the very start. But my wife is only 45 and she doesn’t have any pre-exi...
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Pandemic second wave rages on as Modi remains missing
May 7, 2021
The last two weeks have been the bloodiest for India since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in February 2020. Practically every single day, new highs are being reported, both in fresh daily infections as well as in death toll due to the pandemic, with over 400,000 new cas...
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With oxygen going rare, Delhi gasps for breath of life
April 28, 2021
Kayam Raza, a resident of Jaitpur Khadda Colony has been waiting in the queue since morning to get his oxygen cylinder refilled. Raza, whose 70-year-old mother is sick and in urgent need of oxygen, says he could not get her admitted in any hospital and has been waiting to ...
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