India’s oxygen crisis is not uniformly distributed across states. Some are struggling more than others. 3 hours ago A man waits to refill a medical oxygen cylinders at at an oxygen refill station in Prayagraj on April 20. | Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP On the night of April 17, Ram Kumar Jaiswal went to sleep relieved that his elder brother Raj Kumar was recovering. It had been a week since Raj Kumar, 28, had been admitted to the government medical college and hospital at Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh after he had tested positive for Covid-19. With his oxygen levels falling, he had been moved to the intensive care unit. But that night, he seemed better, he even ate dinner by himself.