Covid-19 crisis: Hospitals scrape bottom of barrel as oxygen runs out

Not just patients, social media is seeing cries of help from big hospitals which have often been left with just a few hours of supply

As his oxygen level dropped below 40 and family struggled to arrange an oxygen cylinder or hospital bed in Lucknow, retired government official S P Srivastava died.
 
“No private person was allowed to refill cylinders after a state government order. We couldn’t find a cylinder for two days,” a family member said.
 
Not just patients, social media is seeing cries of help from big hospitals which have often been left with just a few hours of oxygen.
 
On Friday morning Sir Gangaram Hospital in Delhi said it had lost 25 of its critical patients in the past