New Delhi: On Saturday, 392,488 new instances of coronavirus infections had been recorded in India which was marginally lower than the day gone by’s tally of 401,993. The nation amid the surge in instances face an acute scarcity of oxygen.
Indian-American billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla pledged USD 10 million for the availability of medical oxygen to hospitals in India.
This is in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder’s efforts to fund hospitals for oxygen provides amid a surge in COVID instances within the nation.
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On Sunday, in a sequence of tweets, he stated there was a necessity to avoid wasting lives as additional delay might find yourself in additional deaths.
For @GiveIndia this is not sufficient. They’ve obtained requests for 20000 oxygen concentrators, 15000 cylinders, 500 ICU beds, 100 ventilators, 10000-beds covid centres with requests coming from non-profits & hospitals all throughout India day-after-day. We have to do much more urgently
— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) May 2, 2021
“The Khosla Family is adding USD 10 million to @GiveIndia to it’s previous commitment as a match and hoping others will join in this urgent need,” Khosla added.
India is battling a second wave of the pandemic with greater than 3,00,000 new coronavirus instances being reported each day and hospitals in a number of states reeling beneath a scarcity of medical oxygen and beds.
(With Agency Inputs)
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