Oxygen concentrator

District Collector Dr Kinny Singh's COVID Care Banks is an initiative in East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh that allows residents to borrow thermometers and oximeters when they are in home isolation.

To deal with oxygen shortage during the second wave of coronavirus, an alumni team from the Indian School of Business, Bengaluru, has launched the Oxygen4Blr initiative to procure and distribute oxygen concentrators across the city.

Vishal Singh, who owns a chain of private schools in Delhi-NCR, couldn't find a hospital bed or oxygen for his father suffering from COVID-19 in Gurugram. Frustrated at the state of affairs, he decided to set up a care facility at the Sahara Grace residential complex. Here's how.

Oxygen concentrators can help buy crucial time in the initial phases of COVID-19, when the patient's oxygen levels drop. They can thus buy time before the patient is hospitalised.  Experts from Indian Medical Association and Chest Research Foundation discuss further details