Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before.
"It’s a sad situation everywhere you look. I really don’t know what we can do for these people, but we really want to do some little bit," Tewari said. "We have to do something."
India suffers from a shortage of oxygen tanks, so Tewari and a small group of her friends in Austin are searching for ways to buy and ship medical devices that concentrate the oxygen in the air and make it available to treat COVID-19 patients. They have started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for the effort.