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IN PICS: Mitra and other humanoid robots help COVID-19 patients stuck in quarantine across hospitals in India

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="28762" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="fire">fire</keyword> at <keyword id="6358650" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospital">hospital</keyword> in <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1385429644141236229">killed 13 COVID-19 patients</a> early Friday morning, per AFP and local <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> reports.</li><li>The fire broke out after an air-conditioning unit short-circuited and exploded in the hospital's ICU.</li><li>India is battling <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases</a> that's overwhelming its medical system.</li></ul>A fire that broke out early Friday morning in a hospital in India has <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1385429644141236229">killed 13 COVID-19 patients</a>, according to AFP and multiple local news reports.The fire broke out around 3:15 a.m. at the Vijay Vallabh Hospital in the Maharashtra province after <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/virar-fire-13-covid-19-patients-die-in-fire-at-vijay-vallabh-hospital/articleshow/82208721.cms">an air-conditioning unit short-circuited and exploded</a> in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to The Times of India. Around 90 patients were inside the hospital at the time and 18 were in the ICU, which occupies the second floor of the four-story hospital, officials told The Times.Five of the ICU patients were rescued and moved to other hospitals, officials said. The fire was put out by around 5:30 a.m.Maharashtra's chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, said he had <a href="https://twitter.com/CMOMaharashtra/status/1385438367672795146">ordered an investigation</a> into the incident.On Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences to victims' loved ones and said that he had approved <a href="https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1385435619241824264">payments of roughly $2,700</a> for each next of kin of those who died in the fire, while those "seriously injured" would receive a payment of about $670.The hospital fire isn't the first fatal disaster at an Indian hospital this week. On Wednesday, 22 <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> patients who were on ventilators <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-coronavirus-nashik-hopsital-oxygen-tank-leaks-coronavirus-patients-dead-2021-4">died after an oxygen tanker leaked</a> at their hospital in Nashik, also in the Maharashtra province.Maharashtra, India's second-most populous state and where Mumbai is located, recorded <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/maharashtra-covid-tally-over-4mn-5-districts-report-highest-growth-in-a-week-101619146734810.html">67,013 new COVID-19 cases</a> on Thursday, bringing its total to more than four million.<h2>A second virus wave ravages India</h2>India is in the midst of a massive second <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> wave that's overwhelming its hospitals.On Thursday, the country <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">reported 314,835 new coronavirus cases</a> - a single-day world record. India's seven-day average of new cases is 235,150 per day, far outstripping any other country, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html">The New York Times'</a> COVID-19 case tracker. The next-highest daily average is in the US, which is reporting an average of 61,774 cases per day - about a quarter of India's average daily new cases.Experts told the BBC the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56811315">actual death toll in India is likely much higher</a> than the official numbers due to backlogs at crematoriums and people dying at home before they can get to hospitals or be tested for COVID-19. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-overwhelmed-in-covid-19-2nd-wave-gatherings-continue-2021-4">Hospitals in India are running out of beds</a>, COVID-19 treatment drugs, and oxygen supplies for patients who need ventilators. At least <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-run-out-of-oxygen-amid-covid-19-surge-2021-4">six hospitals in Delhi have run out of oxygen</a> and others have said they have <a href="https://t.co/lj9dMBe8dp?amp=1">only hours' worth of oxygen</a> left. Many patients have <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56799303">died while awaiting treatment</a> or after being turned away from overwhelmed hospitals, according to the BBC.<div type="image" title="india coronavirus deaths virus" height="1666" width="2222" msid="82210623" hostid="261"></div>The dire oxygen shortage has led some people to take matters into their own hands. Earlier this week, desperate relatives of COVID-19 patients <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-covid-second-wave-oxygen-shortage-2021-4">stole oxygen cylinders from a hospital</a>.Meanwhile, two judges at the Delhi High Court are calling on <a href="https://www.insider.com/steel-plants-in-india-open-hospital-covid-oxygen-2021-4">India's steel-making plants</a> that use industrial oxygen to halt operations and donate oxygen to hospitals, as Insider's Cheryl Teh reported. At least two steelmakers, Tata Steel and SAIL, have pledged to donate oxygen for treatment of COVID-19 patients.India has administered about 135 million vaccine doses, leaving only <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/?sref=BLKWHazc">1.5% of its population</a> fully vaccinated, according to Bloomberg's Vaccine Tracker.

A fire broke out at a hospital in India, killing 13 COVID-19 patients in the ICU

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1376100" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rahul-Vohra">Rahul Vohra</keyword>, an Indian vlogger, died from <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword>, his wife announced in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COrkE5YpDX2/">Instagram post</a> Monday. </li><li>In his final social media posts, Vohra criticized the hospital care he was receiving in the country.</li><li><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> is battling a second wave of <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> infections, leaving many <keyword id="6365858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospitals">hospitals</keyword> overwhelmed.</li></ul>Just one day after slamming the quality of his hospital care, Indian actor and YouTuber <a href="https://www.facebook.com/irahulvohra/photos">Rahul Vohra</a>, died from COVID-19, his wife said in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COrkE5YpDX2/">Instagram post</a> Monday. The popular vlogger amassed a large following with his short, comical videos posted to Facebook and Youtube, which often wracked up tens of millions of views. His wife, Jyoti Tiwari, confirmed Vohra's death in an Instagram post Monday shared alongside a final video of her husband in a Delhi hospital. In the video, Vohra criticized the medical care he had received thus far."You try and call out for the attendant, but they don't come," <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/india/rahul-vohra-dies-india-covid-scli-intl/index.html">he said.</a> "They come in an hour's time or more, and you have to manage in their absence somehow." "My Rahul has left us, everyone knows that but, no one knows how he left us," Tiwari said in her Instagram post, criticizing the hospital. "I hope my husband will get justice." India is battling a massive COVID-19 surge amid the spread of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-variant-more-transmissible-who-says-2021-5">more contagious variants</a>. The country reached a grim milestone Saturday with a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-covid-19-record-more-than-4000-covid-19-deaths-2021-5">new record of more than 4,000 deaths.</a> Hospitals in the country have been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-overwhelmed-in-covid-19-2nd-wave-gatherings-continue-2021-4">overwhelmed with patients</a> amid severe shortages of beds, the drug remdesivir, and medical oxygen. Prime Minister Narendra <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-urged-india-to-impose-covid-lockdown-modi-refused-2021-5">Modi has thus far resisted growing calls</a> for a nationwide lockdown."I would have lived had I received better treatment," Vohra wrote in his <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/actor-rahul-vohra-passes-away-due-to-covid-19-complications-after-sharing-a-post-seeking-better-treatment/articleshow/82499070.cms">final Facebook post</a> before his death, tagging Prime Minister Modi's Facebook page in the post.

An Indian vlogger who criticized his hospital care in his last video has died from COVID-19

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> is in crisis: <keyword id="6365858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospitals">Hospitals</keyword> are overloaded with patients amid a surge in <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases.</li><li>Rapidly spreading <keyword id="112799" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="variants">variants</keyword> and social gatherings are fueling this outbreak, experts say.</li><li>A slow vaccine rollout and ill-prepared healthcare system have made matters worse.</li></ul>Just two months ago, India's coronavirus outbreak seemed to have turned a corner. Cases had plummeted to their lowest point since the beginning of the pandemic and vaccines were starting to be rolled out.But Bramer Mukherjee, an epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan, wasn't convinced the progress would last. By mid-February, she spotted an uptick in cases amid an increase in weddings, family gatherings, festivals, and sporting events.She called up her 81-year-old father and 79-year-other mother, who live in Calcutta, to see if they'd be getting vaccinated soon."They said, 'There's no virus right now. There is no rush,'" Mukherjee told Insider. "I think this actually tells you what happened: that in the valley of the virus, that was the right time for India to accelerate vaccination, but that did not happen."Now, average daily cases in India have risen more than 20-fold in the last two months. The country reported more than 350,000 new cases on Monday - the world's highest-ever daily total. <keyword id="6419711" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Deaths">Deaths</keyword> have risen nearly 25-fold in the last two months. Indian hospitals are now plagued by long lines and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-run-out-of-oxygen-amid-covid-19-surge-2021-4">ventilator and oxygen shortages</a>, while bodies pile up at crematoriums. Public-health experts point to four factors that have caused the outbreak to spiral out of control: rapidly spreading variants, an increase in social gatherings, a slow vaccine rollout, and an ill-prepared healthcare system. Had India used its respite over the winter to ramp up testing, genomic surveillance, and the supply of critical medications, they said, the nation would have been better prepared to handle a new surge."Unfortunately, the narrative that played out about how well India did caused a false sense of security," Krutika Kuppalli, an assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, told Insider. "I always felt and believed that India would become the epicenter of this pandemic."Mukherjee said India's "premature celebration of victory" could serve as a warning to other countries."The treacherous thing about this virus is that you cannot wait to see its action," she said. "You have to really track its silent footsteps."<h2>Variants are likely the main culprit behind the surge</h2><div type="image" title="india coronavirus" height="973" width="1500" msid="82222926" hostid="261"></div>Rapidly spreading coronavirus variants are perhaps the biggest culprit behind India's harrowing outbreak. One in particular, B.1.617, has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/double-mutant-coronavirus-variant-california-india-2021-4">a "double mutation"</a> that may help it evade antibodies generated in response to vaccines or previous <keyword id="6418348" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="infections">infections</keyword>. Scientists say the variant shows early hallmarks of being more transmissible than the original strain."This new variant seems more infectious, seems to grab younger people, and seems to have really driven the numbers up," Prabhat Jha, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, told Insider.Scientists in the state of Maharashtra first identified the B.1.617 strain in March. At the time, they said the variant was linked to between <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1707177">15% and 20% of cases</a> there. By April, the variant had come to represent more than half of India's new coronavirus cases, according to <a href="https://outbreak.info/situation-reports?pango=B.1.617&amp;selected=IND&amp;loc=USA&amp;loc=USA_US-CA&amp;loc=INDS-CA&amp;loc=IND">GISAID</a>, a global database that collects coronavirus genomes."The double mutant is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/double-mutant-coronavirus-variant-california-india-2021-4">now in California</a>, it is in the UK, and similar variants are going to circulate all over the world," Mukherjee said. "It's really a global problem."Other coronavirus strains could be fueling the virus' spread as well. Scientists recently identified <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-triple-mutant-in-india-could-be-much-more-deadly-2021-4">a variant with three key mutations</a>, B.1.618, in West Bengal. And a variant in Bangalore, B.1.36, carries a mutation that has been associated with coronavirus reinfections. Experts said India would benefit from regional lockdowns in areas where variants are spreading widely."If India doesn't get their pandemic under control, it affects the entire world," Kuppalli said. "We can put all the travel restrictions we want, but that's not going to prevent these mutations from getting to other places."<h2>Social gatherings gave variants more opportunities to spread</h2><div type="image" title="Holi Festival 2021" height="4285" width="6428" msid="82222928" hostid="261"></div>Variants had plenty of opportunities to spread in India this spring.Earlier this month, at least 50 million people crowded along the Ganga river for a Hindu religious festival that has since been <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/50-million-people-allowed-at-superspreader-festival-so-modi-can-secure-the-hindu-vote">linked to at least 2,000 coronavirus cases</a>. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also held large election rallies, including one in March that attracted 800,000 people.On top of that, experts said, many Indians felt it was no longer vital to continue social distancing or wearing masks. A <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news">January survey</a> found that 56% out 28,000 people sampled in Delhi tested positive for coronavirus antibodies - leading many locals to believe that large cities had already reached herd immunity, according to Mukherjee."Many people were thinking by December, January, 'Oh, we've got this under control,'" Jha said. "That turned out to be just hubris and I, among others, had warned that it could really bite back."Even countries like the US, UK, and Israel - which have vaccinated between 40% and 65% of their populations - need to be mindful that the virus hasn't disappeared, experts said."The real lesson here is: respect the virus, respect <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword>," Jha said. "There's no other way out."<h2>A slow vaccine rollout meant India couldn't get ahead of its outbreak</h2><div type="image" title="india vaccine line" height="3648" width="5472" msid="82299179" hostid="261"></div>India has immunized less than 9% of its population since its national vaccine program started three months ago. That isn't particularly surprising, given the country's size."The challenges there of vaccinating a billion people are just extraordinary," Jha said. But India's vaccine rollout also suffered from a lack of urgency, experts said: Some residents didn't feel the need to get vaccinated right away. Others were skeptical of the shots.India approved its own vaccine, Covaxin, before human trials were finished. It's similar to China's Sinovac vaccine. The shot's makers, Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Medical Research, have said it is <a href="https://www.bharatbiotech.com/images/press/covaxin-phase3-clinical-trials-interim-results.pdf">at least 78% effective</a>. But Jha there's still uncertainty about how well the vaccine is working."We know that a similarly designed Chinese vaccine is underperforming in Latin America, and there might well be the same phenomenon occurring in India," he said. The vaccination effort also took a hit when cases began to rise, according to Kuppalli, because that forced healthcare workers to shift their focus away from administering shots."Vaccines are great, and we need to be rolling them out and ramping them up, but you can't vaccinate your way out of a surge," Kuppalli said.<h2>India's healthcare system wasn't prepared for another surge</h2><div type="image" title="A Covid-19 patient gets admitted to a government hospital in Kolkata, India, 22 April, 2021. India reported 314,835 fresh coronavirus infections on Thursday according to an Indian media report." height="1669" width="2500" msid="82222932" hostid="261"></div>Jha said the Indian healthcare system wasn't equipped to handle another outbreak on top of its vaccine rollout."You have to remember the background here is there's been chronic underinvestment in Indian health for quite some time," he said. "India, like many countries, sadly does not have an adult immunization program." The country had a brief window when cases were low in which it would have been easier to scale up testing and the supply of critical medications, Jha added, but many government officials falsely assumed that the threat was over.Now, the situation on the ground in India is likely even more harrowing than the official numbers indicate. Testing shortages prevent the nation from quantifying the scale of its outbreak, and a handful of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html">doctors</a>, local journalists, and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/even-record-death-toll-may-hide-extent-of-india-s-covid-crisis">relatives of the deceased</a> have reported that official tallies <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/even-record-death-toll-may-hide-extent-of-india-s-covid-crisis">don't reflect the number of bodies arriving at crematoriums</a>. India's healthcare providers also lack the resources, including beds and medications, to treat patients."If you under-report and suppress data and number of deaths, then you cannot really estimate how many people are going to show up at the hospital the next day," Mukherjee said. "And that really harms your ability to provide oxygen and to provide healthcare resources to people."Experts said some doctors in India have - whether due to a lack of training or sheer desperation - tried administering medications that don't work against the virus, like ivermectin, a prescription used to treat parasitic infections."I've heard stories of people getting three, four, five, six meds prescribed to them, medications that have not been shown to be effective at all," Kuppalli said. "I think people are just grasping for straws and that just adds to the chaos and the anxiety." There can also be a financial incentive to offer drugs to patients in critical condition, Jha said."When you have a scenario like this, you'll get really desperate people," he said. "And then you also have very unsavory private providers that'll take advantage of that and offer all sorts of treatment, whether they work or not."Drugs that can work, meanwhile, like the antiviral drug remdesivir, are now in high demand, Kuppalli said."There's a huge black market for remdesivir," she said, "and I'm worried that might happen for vaccines now as well."

A perfect storm of 4 factors has fueled India's harrowing coronavirus surge. Other countries could be next.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In an emergency hearing, judges expressed outrage that steel plants were allowed to remain open and use industrial <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword>.</li><li>COVID patients in <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>'s hospitals are dying as oxygen supplies at COVID care facilities run low.</li><li>Indian steelmakers applied to continue operating even as local governments struggled to maintain a supply of oxygen to hospitals.</li></ul>Two judges at the Delhi High Court expressed outrage during an emergency hearing, calling it the "height of greed" for steel plants to be allowed to operate - even as COVID patients begin to die and hospitals remain oxygen-starved, operating on critically low supplies.<a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/hc-height-of-greed-no-oxygen-for-hospitals-steel-plants-running-242314">The India Tribune</a> reported that High Court judges Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said they were "shocked and dismayed" that hospitals were running out of oxygen but steel plants continued to operate. Most steel-making plants in India require industrial oxygen to produce steel in a process called basic oxygen steel-making - where pure oxygen is blown into a molten pot of blast-furnace iron and scrap. The emergency hearing resulted in a legal directive for oxygen to be provided by "whatever means" to the Indian capital's hospitals, which are currently facing a serious oxygen scarcity. The judges were considering an emergency lawsuit filed by the Balaji Medical and Research Centre, which asked for all supplies of oxygen to be diverted to medical centers to ensure that lives can be saved. The High Court issued a strongly worded response, observing that it "seems human life is not important for the state." "You are not exploring all avenues to augment oxygen supply - beg, borrow or steal," said the court in its decision, warning of India's government officials of the "gravity" of the emergency that Delhi faces if oxygen supplies to hospitals run dry.<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/provide-oxygen-forthwith-to-hospitals-by-whatever-means-delhi-hc-to-centre/articleshow/82183829.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppstgn=cppst">The India Times</a> reported that the judges encouraged steel and petrochemical plants to halt operations and follow the example of multinational steel-making company Tata Steel in supplying much-needed oxygen supplies to hospitals. Local media outlet <a href="https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-tata-steel-supplying-200-300-tons-oxygen-for-treatment-of-covid-19-patients-2887219">DNA India</a> reported on Tuesday that Tata Steel said it would supply 200 to 300 tons of medical oxygen every day to various state governments and hospitals. "Medical oxygen is critical to the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Responding to the national urgency, we're supplying 200 to 300 tons of liquid medical oxygen daily to various state governments &amp; hospitals. We are in this fight together and will surely win it," Tata said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/TataSteelLtd/status/1383689665312530438?s=20">tweet</a>.The country's largest steel-making company SAIL also <a href="http://www.businessworld.in/article/Tata-Steel-SAIL-AMNS-India-Supplying-Oxygen-For-Treatment-Of-COVID-19-Patients/19-04-2021-386937/">said it was supplying 33,300 tons of oxygen</a> for the treatment of COVID patients - but not all companies in the industry have fallen in line. In March, a coalition of the country's steelmakers <a href="https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2090253-indian-steelmakers-appeal-to-operate-during-lockdown">applied to the government to allow them to continue to run operations</a> despite India's nationwide lockdown, asking to be classified as essential services. In the meantime, India continues to struggle with its critically low oxygen supplies. <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-coronavirus-nashik-hopsital-oxygen-tank-leaks-coronavirus-patients-dead-2021-4">Over 20 COVID patients in the western Indian city of Nashik died on Wednesday</a> when oxygen in their ventilators ran out amid the nationwide shortage of the gas. The state's health minister, Rajesh Tope, said the oxygen supply at the hospital in question had run out because the tanker refilling it suffered a leak. Out of desperation, some families of COVID patients have also <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-covid-second-wave-oxygen-shortage-2021-4">started stealing oxygen cylinders from hospitals</a>. It was reported that oxygen cylinders had been taken from a storeroom at the Damoh district hospital in Madhya Pradesh.India <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">reported 314,835 new coronavirus cases on Thursday</a> - the highest daily total of any country during the pandemic. This brings the number of COVID cases in the country to close to 16 million recorded cases.

Judges in India say it is the height of greed for steel plants to operate as COVID oxygen supplies in hospitals dwindle

<ul class="summary-list"><li>There is a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-report-dire-oxygen-shortages-coronavirus-battle-2021-4">shortage of liquid medical oxygen</a> in <keyword id="6365858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospitals">hospitals</keyword> in northern <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>. </li><li><keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> cases are surging at record-breaking numbers in India. </li><li>A lack of <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword> means hospitals can't help treat people who are severely ill from the virus. </li></ul>Six hospitals in Delhi have run out of liquid medical oxygen as hospitals across northern India <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-report-dire-oxygen-shortages-coronavirus-battle-2021-4">face shortages amid a coronavirus surge.</a><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/coronavirus-six-delhi-hospitals-run-out-of-oxygen-minister-tells-centre/article34385678.ece">In a letter seen by The Hindu,</a> Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia asked Union <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">Health</keyword> Minister Harsh Vardhan to intervene and help get oxygen to hospitals that have run out.He said Delhi was not getting its full quota of oxygen from a facility in Haryana, and it's causing massive shortages.A lack of oxygen means hospitals can't help treat people who are severely ill with COVID-19.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">India on Thursday reported</a> more than 314,000 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, the most ever recorded by a single country.

6 Indian hospitals have run out of oxygen as the country faces a record-breaking COVID-19 surge

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> is transporting oxygen tankers on express trains to help treat <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> patients.</li><li>India is battling a devastating surge. Hospitals have critical shortages of oxygen to treat people.</li><li>Special ramps have reportedly been installed so the tankers can drive on and off the trains quickly.</li></ul>India is using express trains to transport oxygen tankers as hospitals deal with critical shortages to treat COVID-19 patients.Indian Railways is calling the project "Oxygen Express" as it started running trains to bring oxygen to the states of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.Northern India is dealing with a critical oxygen shortage that has left hospitals warning they had just <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-report-dire-oxygen-shortages-coronavirus-battle-2021-4">hours of oxygen left</a>, and that coronavirus patients would die when it runs out.India is battling a devastating surge that's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">breaking global records</a>, overwhelming the health system, and leaving people <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-indias-covid-19-surge-die-stretchers-hospitals-2021-4">dying</a> outside of hospitals as they wait for treatment.The tankers are being transported using a roll-on, roll-off service, which means special ramps have been installed so they can drive on and off the trains quickly, <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/green-corridor-ro-ro-service-all-you-need-to-know-about-oxygen-express-train-101618751011302.html">the Hindustan Times reported</a>. Piyush Goyal, India's railways minister, <a href="https://twitter.com/PiyushGoyal/status/1385174270175715330">tweeted</a> that a "green corridor" had been created, which would mean the trains don't meet any red lights and can move through the routes faster.Delhi's High Court on Wednesday <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-high-court-slams-centre-for-not-diverting-enough-oxygen-from-industries-to-critically-ill-covid-patients/article34378558.ece">criticized</a> the government for how it was handling the oxygen shortage, and ordered that oxygen be diverted from other industries to treat coronavirus patients.

India is putting oxygen tankers on special express trains as hospitals run out of supplies for COVID-19 patients

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On May 1, <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> set a global record of the highest number of <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> cases recorded in one day.</li><li>So many people are dying, one medical worker refers to patients as "patient" instead of their name.</li><li>Indian's strained hospital systems are similar to China and Italy's COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020. </li></ul>Record-setting COVID-19 cases, alarming death tolls, and overstretched hospitals in India have doctors feeling burnt out, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-25/burnout-and-depression-spiral-among-india-s-traumatized-doctors">Bloomberg News</a>. "Now, I'm scared of building relationships with patients. At first I did that, and then I would come back for my next shift and see their empty bed, and that would break my heart. Even the fact that I now refer to them as "the patient." I would have used a name before," Gautam Harigovind, a Doctors Without Borders worker in India, said in <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/covid-india-devastating-second-wave-pushes-health-care-limits">a blog post for the organization</a>. Harigovind also said there's not enough medical staff to tend to the influx of patients, and the combination of working in humid weather with a protective suit is "unimaginable." Dozens of doctors told Bloomberg that they're feeling the same way: burnt out, exhausted, and anxious. As a result, Harigovind said in his post, they're struggling to fill staffing slots - turning to graduates instead who are "thrust into something that nobody really expected or can really fathom.""Right now, it's three days and you're burned out. Even if your shift is only six hours, those are COVID-19 hours. It's the conditions, and the sheer number of patients," Harigovind wrote. <h2>India set a global record of daily cases - but experts say the true rate could be 5 times higher</h2>Since the beginning of the pandemic, India has had over 27 million COVID-19 cases - second only to the US - and over 300,000 COVID-19 deaths, according to <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/">Worldometer</a>. India's second wave started in February 2021, and, on May 1, the country <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-first-country-to-record-400000-single-day-coronavirus-cases-2021-5">set a global record</a> of daily COVID-19 cases - 401,993 in just 24 hours. Experts believe that is an underestimate."From all the modeling we've done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported," Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html">New York Times</a>. Experts say there are multiple reasons driving the soaring case counts: a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-overwhelmed-in-covid-19-2nd-wave-gatherings-continue-2021-4">"double mutant"</a> variant, mass gatherings, and a bumpy vaccine rollout. As a result of the rapid spread, hospitals are running out of beds and people are <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-covid-second-wave-oxygen-shortage-2021-4">stealing oxygen</a> from hospitals to help treat their loved ones affected by COVID-19.

An Indian medical worker says doctors are so burnt out they are struggling to fill shifts as COVID-19 patients overwhelm hospitals

<ul class="summary-list"><li>22 <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> patients in Nashik, <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>, died after an oxygen tanker at their hospital leaked.</li><li>A local official said they died "due to the interrupted supply of oxygen."</li><li>India is battling a devastating coronavirus surge and shortages in oxygen to treat patients.</li></ul>Twenty-two coronavirus patients in India, who were on ventilators, have died after an oxygen tanker leaked at their hospital, officials said.<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/oxygen-tank-leak-outside-hospital-in-maharashtras-nashik-fire-engines-rushed-to-spot-2418614">The Indian broadcaster NDTV</a> reported that they were killed on Wednesday at the Zakir Hussain Hospital in the city of Nashik, in the western Maharashtra province.Local official Suraj Mandhare told NDTV "As per current information, 22 people have died due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital."This video tweeted by NDTV journalist Umashankar Singh shows gas leaking from the tanker:Rajesh Tope, the <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> minister for the Maharashtra state, said: "As per the information available with us, patients who were on ventilators at the hospital in Nashik have died. The leakage was spotted at the oxygen tank which was supplying oxygen to these patients," NDTV reported.He added: "The interrupted supply could be linked to the deaths of the patients in the hospital."India is currently battling a huge surge of the coronavirus, and has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/apr/21/coronavirus-live-news-india-reports-over-200000-cases-for-seventh-straight-day-japan-mulls-new-restrictions?page=with:block-607fb19d8f08505668d96568#block-607fb19d8f08505668d96568">reported</a> more than 200,000 cases a day for seven days in a row. As of Wednesday, the country has recorded more than 15.6 million cases, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to Johns Hopkins University data</a>.Hospitals are also reporting huge oxygen shortages.

An oxygen tanker at a hospital leaked in Nashik, India, killing 22 COVID-19 patients who were on ventilators

<ul><li>Mukesh Ambani-led <keyword id="6355199" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="reliance-industries">Reliance Industries</keyword> announced a series of support to fight the increasing <keyword id="8868186" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus-outbreak-in-india">coronavirus outbreak in India</keyword>. </li><li>RIL said it will open a 100 bedded centre at Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai to support the patients who have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). </li><li>Moreover Reliance Sciences has promised additional test kits and consumables for effective testing. </li></ul>In spite of the fact that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/indias-richest-person-mukesh-ambani-lost-nearly-half-of-his-multi-billion-dollar-fortune-to-coronavirus-pandemic/articleshow/74771308.cms">a Coronavirus-led market meltdown is eating into his wealth</a>, <keyword id="3820" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mukesh-Ambani">Mukesh Ambani</keyword> and his company Reliance Industries announced a slew of measures to tackle the pandemic. Ambani today said that RIL will contribute ₹5 crore to Maharashtra CM’s relief fund. The company also joined hands with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to set up a 100 bed centre at Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai for patients who test positive. 
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 “This first-of-its-kind-in-India centre is fully funded by Reliance Foundation and includes a negative pressure room that helps in preventing cross contamination and helps control infection. All beds are equipped with the required infrastructure, bio-medical equipment such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machine and patient monitoring devices,” said the company statement. RIL also built a fully-equipped isolation facility at Lodhivali at the deep end of Navi Mumbai and handed it over to the district authorities. Apart from this, Reliance Life Sciences said that it is importing additional test kits and consumables for effective testing. The company that owns a grocery chain — Reliance Fresh — across India said the stores will remain open from 7 am to 11 pm wherever possible. The move came after thousands of people trolled Indian billionaires for not providing any support to the Indian government. Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma <a href="https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/jack-ma-donates-emergency-supplies-to-all-barring-india-twitter-asks-what-indian-billionaires-doing">promised to provide emergency supplies to several countries but India. </a> Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter on March 22 to announce a series of measures, including production of ventilators at Mahindra's factories, to fight the Coronavirus outbreak. Mahindra said he would help small businesses and self-employed people, who are worst hit by this outbreak and would contribute 100 per cent of his salary to create a fund. Industrialist Anil Agarwal on March 22 announced that Vedanta Group is setting up a ₹100 crore fund to support daily wage workers and employees. Vedanta will not cut salaries or layoff any staff, including temporary workers during this crisis period. (With IANS) See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/indias-richest-person-mukesh-ambani-lost-nearly-half-of-his-multi-billion-dollar-fortune-to-coronavirus-pandemic/articleshow/74771308.cms">Mukesh Ambani lost nearly half of his wealth due to Coronavirus fears </a>

Mukesh Ambani sets up a hospital, builds an isolation center and much more to combat Coronavirus

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Indian hospitals are reporting <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword> shortages, warning that could kill patients.</li><li>The country is battling a record-breaking COVID-19 surge that's overwhelming hospitals.</li><li>Some hospitals say they have hours of oxygen left.</li></ul>Hospitals in northern <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> are reporting oxygen shortages as the country battles a devastating <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> surge.Multiple reports show hospitals warning that they only have a few hours' left of supply. Some people have also <a href="https://www.insider.com/india-covid-second-wave-oxygen-shortage-2021-4">stolen oxygen</a> to try to protect their loved ones.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-cases-highest-single-day-rise-global-record-2021-4">India on Thursday reported</a> more than 314,000 coronavirus cases within 24 hours, the most ever recorded by a single country. And its total cases are approaching 16 million - the second highest in the world.A lack of oxygen would mean the country struggles to treat those who are severely ill.Here are some of the reported problems that hospitals face:<ul><li>Ramanan Laxminarayan, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in New Delhi, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/21/india/india-covid-hospital-shortage-intl-hnk/index.html">said</a>: "There's no oxygen. A hospital bed is hard to find."</li><li>The management of Saroj Super Speciality Hospital in Rohini said on Thursday morning it had just one hour's worth of oxygen left, the Indian Express <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/coronavirus-india-live-updates-maharashtra-delhi-uttar-pradesh-cases-deaths-vaccination-7282388/">reported</a>.</li><li> The CEO of Shanti Mukund hospital in East Delhi <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/new-delhi-coronavirus-oxygen-supply/">said</a> on Thursday that it only had around 30 minutes of oxygen left for its 110 COVID patients, and that many of them could die.</li><li>Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute in Paschim Vihar <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/new-delhi-coronavirus-oxygen-supply/">warned</a> on Thursday that its oxygen supply would only last for five hours.</li></ul>Indian Express reporter Mallica Joshi also tweeted a screenshot of a government document showing the oxygen stock status at multiple hospitals as of 12:45 p.m. local time Thursday:Delhi's High Court court <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-high-court-slams-centre-for-not-diverting-enough-oxygen-from-industries-to-critically-ill-covid-patients/article34378558.ece">criticized</a> the central government for its handling of oxygen supplies on Wednesday, and ordered that oxygen be diverted from other industries to treat patients.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/oxygen-supplies-run-low-india-grapples-with-coronavirus-storm-2021-04-21/">Prime Minister Narendra Modi said</a> on Tuesday that the country was facing a coronavirus "storm" overwhelming its health system, and that the country was working to boost oxygen supplies.

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