Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.
The oxygen gap
In mid-April, as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic took a deadly turn in India, many middle-class people found themselves confronted with a problem they didn’t know existed – loved ones dying from a lack of oxygen as state-of-the-art private hospitals ran out of supplies.
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