The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled India’s healthcare system, overburdening hospitals and medical staff. India’s big cities, including its national capital Delhi, are facing a crunch in the supply of oxygen, which makes one only wonder about the state in India’s rural districts.
And that was a conversation taking place in a Whatsapp group of three Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi graduates, one of whom is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer serving in the hinterlands of India. The trio decided to raise ₹47,50,000 to install 50 oxygen concentrators in the district of Mandsaur in central India. Within three-four days of launching the crowdfunding campaign, they raised above their target.
News Source : The Free Press
