The urgent pleas for help from Rohit Mediratta’s family and friends in India began a few weeks ago. Then his brother, a neurosurgeon in New Delhi, said that his hospital had canceled most surgeriesMr. Mediratta, a tech company director of engineering who lives in Palo Alto, Calif., said he and his wife, Kanika, felt compelled to act. She found a supplier of oxygen concentrators, which filter oxygen from the air, that was willing to ship immediately to India.
“India is essentially a medical war zone,” Mr. Mediratta said. “It’s heart-wrenching that we can only do so much.”, one of the world’s largest diasporas is mobilizing aid, including many Indian-Americans. On Thursday, India reported more than 412,000 new daily cases, a global single-day high for the pandemic, and nearly 4,000 deaths.
There are about four million Americans of Indian descent, and many are donating to nonprofits that are shipping critical medical supplies to India and searching for vendors to send equipment.
I’ve learned of as a long term help in all relational circumstances, and I know they’re also working to help in any way now also. It’s incredibly hard to imagine what they’re suffering right now in India.
India's catastrophic Covid-19 response has exposed a creeping erosion of democratic values and traditions under prime minister Narendra Modi. Source: FT.