Oxygen shortage due to COVID-19 crisis leaves Delhi, other cities overwhelmed

A Covid 19-infected patient uses oxygen provided by an NGO, Hemkunt Foundation, at Sector 42 in Gurugram. A Covid 19-infected patient uses oxygen provided by an NGO, Hemkunt Foundation, at Sector 42 in Gurugram. (Photo | PTI)

A patient is shifted to a broken stretcher for primary treatment outside LLR Hospital in Kanpur. A Covid 19-infected patient uses oxygen provided by an NGO, Hemkunt Foundation, at Sector 42 in Gurugram. (Photo | PTI)

Relatives shifting an elderly person on to a stretcher outside the casualty ward of a hospital in Bhubaneswar. (Photo | Biswanath Swain, EPS)

A COVID-19 patient waits to be admitted at Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Ajmer. (Photo | PTI)

People wait to refill their medical oxygen cylinders for patients at an oxygen refilling station in New Delhi on Sunday. The national capital is facing shortage of oxygen cylinders ever since the numbers spiked. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS)

Migrant labourers try to board a bus to their native places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, from Gurugram, on Sunday. (Photo | PTI)

A family member tries to revive a COVID-19 positive patient outside Nalanda Medical College and Hospital while waiting to be admitted, in Patna. (Photo | PTI)