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As a second COVID-19 wave rages through India, the country’s health care system finds itself unable to keep up with demand. Without sufficient hospital beds, equipment and, more important, oxygen, India has put out a call for help worldwide. And some members of the Indian diaspora in Connecticut are answering.
Sujata Srinivasan, an independent journalist with the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, is raising funds for OxygenforIndia. Formed by the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, the newly created organization is aimed at expediting the “last mile.”
The main issue in India, Srinivasan said, is not a lack of oxygen supply but instead a broken infrastructure. In other words, oxygen is available but few have access to it due to transportation, lack of connections, etc. That last mile is where OxygenforIndia comes in, helping bridge the gap between suppliers and patients.
Hartford PD: Officers respond to Saint Francis Hospital for man wounded by gunshot
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HARTFORD Officers responded to Saint Francis Hospital on Tuesday evening for a man reportedly wounded by gunshot, according to police.
Hartford Police spokesperson Lt. Aaron Boisvert wrote in a release that the man who is “in his 30s” has an non-life-threatening injury.
“It was determined that the incident occurred in the area of Main Street at Nelson Street,” Boisvert wrote.
Officials from the Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions “responded and assumed the investigation,” Boisvert wrote in the release.
Police ask those who have information related to this incident contact the department’s tip line at 860-722-TIPS (8477).
9 shot, 2 fatally, Tuesday in Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Two people were killed and seven others wounded in shootings in Chicago Tuesday, according to Chicago police.
About 7:40 p.m., a person was walking in the 3400 block of West 18th Street when several people got out of a car and began shooting, Chicago police said. He was struck in the head and chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About an hour earlier, a 29-year-old man was fatally shot in West Rogers Park on the North Side. He was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car in the 6000 block of North California Avenue, when someone walked up and fired shots, police said. He was struck in the neck and taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston where he was pronounced dead.