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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stimulus mind" data-source="post: 26322962" data-attributes="member: 577135"><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a5c32d4f2e83a6b46b5d6121344e4a00e88f32e1/0_119_3500_2099/master/3500.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=dba8e3bf12478b20af553024ea49a627" alt="A notice about the shortage of coronavirus vaccine supplies is seen at a vaccination centre, in Mumbai." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A notice about the shortage of coronavirus vaccine supplies is seen at a vaccination centre, in Mumbai. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters“I realised Deepti needed oxygen immediately so I arranged for a cylinder for her myself,” he said. “I put her into the back of a relative’s car with the oxygen while I went around to a dozen private and government hospitals trying to find her a bed and a ventilator. But nowhere would take her.”Eventually, late at night on 16 April Pandey found her a bed in a small six-bed private clinic in Lucknow. It was not a Covid hospital but they agreed to take her for a single night to give her oxygen while Pandey continued his search for a hospital bed. “We kept looking all night but nowhere had a bed or ventilator for her,” he said. “In the morning the clinic discharged her at 5 am, so we had no choice but to bring her home. Deepti died a few hours later because she did not have oxygen and hospital care. She should be alive today.”<img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/64ff7674bdadb8d3a5b269400509cbfecb6d9dd2/0_156_3200_1921/master/3200.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=f24c6493bd468a64336500cd6496c29b" alt="People carry a medical oxygen cylinder at a refilling station in Allahabad." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />People carry a medical oxygen cylinder at a refilling station in Allahabad. Photograph: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty ImagesTwitter and Facebook have become a devastating catalogue of hundreds of thousands of urgent pleas for help finding hospital beds, oxygen, plasma and remdesivir, the drug experimentally used to help treat Covid patients which remains in short supply in hospitals across the country.The dead, meanwhile, have continued to overload crematoriums and graveyards in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi faster than they could be burned, and families waited days to cremate their loved ones. On Sunday, Delhi’s largest cremation facility, Nigambodh Ghat, ran out of space, despite doubling its funeral pyres to more than 60.State governments in Delhi and Mumbai have been scrambling to rebuild the temporary Covid facilities they had dismantled months earlier, while the central government announced an amping up of the vaccination programme which would mean anyone over the age of 18 will be eligible from 1 May, though a shortage of supplies remains an issue.An edict from the government ruled that all oxygen meant for industrial use would now be diverted to hospitals to meet the unprecedented demand, and Indian railways said they were all set to operate special trains specially designed to carry liquid oxygen and oxygen cylinders, dubbed the “Oxygen Express”. Thousands of Covid beds have also been arranged in train carriages.Still, many fear that it is too little, too late. “The seriousness of the situation should have been realised months ago but instead governments were in denial and gave out messages that the virus was not that dangerous any more,” said Thadhani. “I’m worried that we still have not seen the worst.”Mohammad Sartaj Alam     theguardian.com</blockquote>

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