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The Oxygen Famine: Mismanagement And Ignoring History’s Lessons?

India Faces Oxygen Crisis As Covid-19 Cases Mount

NEW DELHI, INDIA - APRIL 29: member of manager committee of Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Greater Kailash Part 1 (Pahari Wala), in collaboration with Sardar Manjit Singh GK, former President of DSGMC now Kovid patients 'Oxygen anchor' is being introduced through refilling of the oxygen cylinder at Gurudwara Singh Sabha, Greater Kailash Part 1, on April 29, 2021 in New Delhi, India. In the last 24 hours, recorded 3,86,654 fresh Covid-19 cases and 3,501deaths, which is the highest in the country so far. At present, there are 31,64,825 active cases in India. As Covid-19 cases continued to surge in India people are struggling to get hospital beds, ventilators, oxygen cylinders, injections and medicines with the health infrastructure in the state almost stretched to its limit. ( Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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When my phone rang last evening, I got terrified and it shook me to the core. With the situation that’s prevailing in our country, every time it’s someone I know on the other end of the phone with some scary news. For the last 15 Days, The covid cases have seen a disastrous surge, six figures of official daily cases are the new common thing to hear. People are losing their loved ones every day, feeling helpless, and miserable.

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The ignorance and mismanagement of those in power have led our country to the brink of collapse.

All of the efforts they are putting into saving their family and loved ones seem to go vain. But wasn’t this catastrophic situation predictable? Didn’t we know that this was going to happen, and still failed? Many questions arise and all of them need to be answered.

Covid will be stronger in the second wave” was very much known and was ignored. The system and the ones in power have ignored it like a joke. Their ignorance and mismanagement have led our country to the brink of collapse. At least 197 people have died to date due to oxygen shortage.

The total estimated need of India in the second wave of Covid is 6000 metric tonnes per day, which was just 700 metric tonnes per day in the first wave. Experts believe that India is capable of producing 7500 metric tonnes of oxygen every day which is much more than the required quantity.

But still, India is facing a famine of oxygen, and the biggest underlying reason for this is the shortage of the required cryogenic cylinders.

It takes about 4-6 days for the oxygen to reach the required place due to a shortage of cryogenic containers that are used for the supply of oxygen. To overcome this shortage, the government is taking several steps now which should have been taken months ago, keeping science and rationality at the center of their scheme.

Edmund Burke once said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” It seems to be the scenario of our country today, as a very similar failure that our last generation had experienced in the seventies where a famine took many lives. Not due to shortage of resources, but due to poor management.

It is high time that the government needs to take whatever necessary steps required to keep the hopes of the people of our country intact. And it is the foremost duty of every citizen to cooperate in every way possible.

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