oxygen shortage

District Collector of East Champaran, Bihar, Kapil Ashok Shirsat, narrates how he fixed the problem at Gayatri Medical and Industrial Gases, and procured oxygen cylinders from the Indo-Nepal border

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.

Rajat Kumar Panigrahi, the principal of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) at Berhampur has innovated a low-cost trolley to move oxygen cylinders in remote areas with make shift hospitals.

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