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 could find yourself in extra deaths.
“For @GiveIndia this is not sufficient. They’ve obtained 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 day by day. We must 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 adding USD 10 million to @GiveIndia to its previous commitment as a match and hoping others will join in this urgent need,” Khosla mentioned.
On Sunday, a report 3,689 every day COVID-19 fatalities pushed India’s dying toll to 2,15,542, whereas the an infection depend reached 1,95,57,457 with 3,92,488 extra folks testing optimistic for the contagion, in response to the Union Health Ministry.
The energetic instances have additionally crossed the 33-lakh mark, it mentioned.
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