Indian-origin billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla has pledged USD 10 million for supplying medical oxygen to hospitals in India amidst an unprecedented second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the nation. Taking to Twitter, the 66-year-old enterprise capitalist mentioned that there was a necessity to avoid wasting lives as additional delay might find yourself in extra deaths.
“For @GiveIndia this isn’t sufficient. They’ve acquired requests for 20,000 oxygen concentrators, 15,000 cylinders, 500 ICU beds, 100 ventilators, 10,000-beds Covid centres with requests coming from non-profits & hospitals all throughout India daily. We have to do much more urgently, Khosla mentioned on Sunday. This is in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder’s efforts to fund hospitals for oxygen provides.
“The Khosla Family is including USD 10 million to @GiveIndia to its earlier dedication as a match and hoping others will be part of in this pressing want,” Khosla said. On Sunday, a record 3,689 daily Covid-19 fatalities pushed India’s death toll to 2,15,542, while the infection count reached 1,95,57,457 with 3,92,488 more people testing positive for the contagion, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The active cases have also crossed the 33-lakh mark, it said.
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