From Cryogenic Oxygen Containers To Concentrators To Ventilators, Here s How Singapore Helped India Amid COVID Crisis
by Swarajya Staff - May 14, 2021 12:14 PM
Singaporeâs PM Lee Hsien Loong with PM Modi. (Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
In April, 2021 India experienced a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases which is called a second wave by many. The second wave has posed a new challenge to Indiaâs health system that the country did not face before, shortage of medical oxygen.
As Liquid Medical oxygen (LMO) became new gold, governments roped in both public and private companies to produce it. But more than its production, its transportation from point of production which are large scale industries to centres of use which are mainly hospitals located in cities has become a problem.
Covid-19 teaches Indian armed forces new lessons in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Thu, May 13 2021 01:30:16 PM
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, May 13: The Indian armed forces earned international accolades when they reached to people in distress from Indonesia to Sri Lanka during the infamous Asian Tsunami of 2004.
As an undersea earthquake triggered mammoth waves that devastated long stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline, Indian warships rose to the occasion providing HADR to people well beyond India s maritime borders.
But the second wave of Covid-19 have by a wide margin, dwarfed the HADR demands of the Asian Tsunami. At a time when millions have been literally gasping for breath, the armed forces have fanned out far beyond India s borders on a HADR mission that has no precedence.