Negligent Manslaughter. That’s the only way to describe the Modi government’s abominable, grotesque mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. India has passed the grim milestone of 200,000 dead. Every day, more than 350,000 Indians are added to the 18 million COVID cases already recorded.
Every four minutes someone dies of COVID in the nation’s capital, Delhi, with infection rates spiking among younger people. Hospitals are overflowing: often, two COVID patients share a bed.
Beset by oxygen shortages, hospitals are sending SOS tweets begging the government for supplies. There’s looting of oxygen canisters from hospitals at gunpoint. Haryana’s Health Minister accused the Delhi government of stealing his state’s oxygen tankers. State governments have deployed armed police at oxygen production plants.
The Delhi High Court expressed its ‘shock and dismay’ that the central government doesn’t recognise the ‘extremely urgent need of medical oxygen.’ It directed the government to ensure ‘safe passage” of oxygen supplies and warned all ‘hell will break loose’ if its supply is interrupted. The sick are waiting outside hospitals, gasping for air, lying on the ground, on stretchers, in ambulances, waiting to be admitted. Many are dying, waiting.
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