Authors : Richa Mishra
DOI : 10.18231/j.jmra.2023.003
Volume : 10
Issue : 1
Year : 2023
Page No : 11-17
The most dreaded sickness to have lately spread across the world is thought to be corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). During the first wave, India had extremely few COVID-19-positive cases per million people, but during the second wave, even more than 400,000 confirmed cases/day were reported. News of the medical oxygen shortage became more widely publicised following the Corona virus pandemic epidemic (Covid-19). One of the most crucial elements in the care of patients who have Covid-19 is medical oxygen. When the Covid epidemic was at its worst, India's medical system struggled with an oxygen shortage, which caused a sharp increase in the daily death toll. The demand for oxygen cylinders, ventilators, and other medical supplies grew to the point that there was not enough supply (availability). There was a significant unmet demand as a result. The Government of India made several attempts to fast ramp up the production process in order to guarantee that medical oxygen is given to individuals who are in dire need of it. However, the medical oxygen was unable to be transported from the point of production to the point of consumption due to significant logistical and supply chain issues. The goal of this study article is to thoroughly comprehend the numerous factors that contributed to the medical oxygen system failing in India during the second wave of the Covid-19 virus.
Keywords: Oxygen Failure, Covid19, 2ndWave, corona virus, India