The government says there is no shortage, but acknowledges problems in the supply chain.
During a meeting with state leaders Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted “the difficulties faced by some states recently in procuring oxygen supply” and said that “ensuring availability of medical oxygen is of utmost importance,”With nearly 6 million cases, India is battling the second-largest coronavirus outbreak in the world. In mid-September, it set a record for the most daily cases —
— since the pandemic began. The daily totals have since fallen below 90,000, although testing has also decreased. India is on track to overtake the United States as the country with the most coronavirus cases next month if current trends hold.More than 1,000 people have died every day since Sept. 2 and the trend shows no sign of slackening. India’s total death toll is approaching 100,000.
Before the pandemic, medical oxygen would be shipped in a radius of about 125 miles from where it was produced, Tiku said. These days it is moving 10 or 20 times that distance, he said. “We’re transporting from oxygen-surplus places to those that need oxygen,” Tiku said. “Now it’s taking days.”For hospitals, the increase in the need for medical oxygen over the last two months has been dramatic.
Vidyadhar Gaikwad, the resident medical officer for the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital in the city of Pune, said that the 110-bed hospital once neededNow a single covid-19 patient on a regimen of high-flow oxygen will use a jumbo cylinder every two hours. His hospital needs more than 100 such cylinders a day to treat covid-19 patients in its 10-bed intensive care unit, Gaikwad said.The surge in demand “happened suddenly [and] even the dealers and vendors were not prepared.
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