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When Mrs Dia Golani started raising funds last Saturday to send oxygen cylinders to India, she hoped to hit $6,000. But in less than a week, the amount hit $43,000.
This week, she will be able to send 50 oxygen cylinders to a hospital in Ahmedabad. The 34-year-old Singaporean, who works in a freight company, said reading about the tragedies in India cut close to home. My mother-in-law s sister died last year from Covid-19 in Mumbai.
Hers is just one of several ground-up initiatives in Singapore to gather supplies or collect funds for India, which has seen over two million new coronavirus cases in the past week alone.
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Attendants of a patient carry an oxygen cylinder for the patient inside a hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, April 25, 2021.
Credit: AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
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While India managed the first wave of COVID-19 comparatively well, the second wave has turned into an unmitigated disaster. The number of new daily cases has hit another record high, 386,000, and the official number of reported deaths has crossed 200,000 this week. Many believe those figures to be undercounts.
While some could argue these data are not of a large scale when compared to the country’s total population (which is estimated to be above 1.3 billion), referring to such proportions clouds the reality of the tragedy. What matters is to what degree the health system is capable of dealing with a large number of severe cases at the same time and this is where India has faced its biggest problem,