At least 22 patients have died at a public hospital in the western state of Maharashtra India when it ran out of oxygen due to a leak in the tank, a government official said, according to the APE.
“The oxygen tank leaked during its refueling and this resulted in the death of 22 patients,” said Suraz Mandahare, a Nasik official in Maharashtra, adding that the hospital was treating patients with covid-19.
Indians, meanwhile, are turning to Twitter for oxygen bottles, hospital beds or medicines for their coronavirus-infected relatives.
The previous 24 hours were recorded in India more than 295,000 new cases of coronavirus, with the country breaking one tragic record of infections in recent days. Hospitals are expelling patients, while there are shortages of medicines and oxygen.
People in need of medicines or information share the phone numbers of volunteers, oxygen or medicine sellers and details about which hospital can accept other patients using hashtag #COVIDSOS.
Some users have offered to cook for covid-19 patients who are quarantined in their homes or to help them with other chores, such as feeding their pets.
“Twitter is doing what government helplines should do,” wrote one user, Karabir Singh. “We are alone.”
Although Twitter is not as widespread in India as Facebook and WhatsApp, it is proving to be a useful tool in the coronavirus crisis, mainly thanks to the re-tweet feature that dramatically increases the number of users who see a message.
A Google document compiled by a team of volunteers detailing information about available hospital beds, oxygen supplies, ambulance lines and other useful information for various states has been widely shared on Twitter.
25-year-old Umang Galaya has created a website where users can choose the name of a city and what they are looking for Oxygen or an antiviral medicine. Their website leads to results on Twitter and so far it has been visited by more than 110,000 people.
On Monday, journalist Suetta Das appealed via Twitter to find a hospital bed and a respirator for a pregnant woman in New Delhi. Her message spread quickly and a city official suggested a hospital.
But a few hours later, Das posted another message: “The patient is dead.”
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