COVID 19 Apocalypse in India – Oxygen Conundrum and Lessons Learned

The COVID-19 pandemic had been a defining global health crisis of our time and probably the greatest challenge the entire mankind would have ever faced. COVID-19 pandemic began its onslaught in India in the month of March 2020, 1st wave peaked in September 2020 with 1 million active cases 2nd wave with an unprecedented and steep growth of daily new cases that went up from 12K to 400K, a jump of 33 times in a short span of 30 days. Medical Oxygen has been an extremely critical element in the treatment and recovery of patients infected with COVID-19 and how India managed the ten-fold Medical Oxygen demand. It is important for the country to understand what led to the conundrum, how India overcame it.