Sudhanshu Kaushik leads a Zoom meeting with members from North American Association of Indian Students.
Avani Singh hops on Zoom around 11 p.m. every night with her mother in New Jersey and uncle in India, strategizing how to keep her coronavirus-stricken grandfather alive.
They already managed to get K.S. Walia, 94, out of a New Delhi emergency room where Singh said a worker demanded an $8 bribe to keep oxygen running. A different hospital where her grandfather is now admitted said the family would need to find oxygen and remdesivir, a drug that reduces recovery time, themselves, Singh said.
Before starting a new search last weekend, Singh, a 28-year-old consultant, walked her dog in her Arlington, Va., neighborhood where people lined up to get inside a rooftop tiki bar and a group pedaled by on a party bike, drinking beer. She returned to her apartment and stayed up until 2 a.m. scouring Instagram for phone numbers of Indians who might have oxygen and getting no replies to a flu
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Before the news of India’s massive Covid-19 second wave and the tragic collapse of the healthcare system made it to the front pages of the international press, it was already being conveyed across the continents on WhatsApp. Indians around the world had a direct line to the medical calamity, as they heard about the difficulties faced by family, friends and neighbours in the country.
Telugu NRIs send oxygen concentrators to TS, AP
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100 oxygen concentrators sent, another 500 to be sent soon
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100 oxygen concentrators sent, another 500 to be sent soon
As the State gasps for oxygen, Telugus sitting thousands of miles away in USA are ensuring that the elixir of life is generated here.
Rising COVID cases and shortage of oxygen for patients have moved the American Telugu Association (ATA) that has sent about 100 oxygen concentrators for supply in hospitals and health centres in the two Telugu States. The machines have already reached New Delhi and will be distributed in the State in a couple of days.
NEW DELHI - Every morning begins with a sense of dread for Ms Gayathree Devi K T. The Indian doctoral student at Britain s University of Oxford goes through her WhatsApp inbox first thing in the morning to check on her family and other loved ones back home.
She is especially worried about the safety of her mother, who works for a government bank in Mumbai and goes to the office daily. She is yet to be fully vaccinated, and several individuals who work in the same building as her have tested positive for Covid-19 in recent weeks.
Could her mother be next? It is a thought that haunts her as well as her family. It s always, you know, at the back of all our minds that it may just be a matter of days before she tests positive, Ms Gayathree said.