Many deaths in India’s Goa as gov’t fails to ensure oxygen supply

Between May 11 and May 16, dropping oxygen levels at Goa’s largest hospital killed 75 COVID-19 patients.

Bambolim, Goa – In the early hours of May 12, Yunus Khan’s family watched helplessly as the 30-year-old coronavirus patient choked for breath while on a ventilator at the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in the coastal state’s Bambolim town. According to his 21-year-old brother Abdul Khan, Yunus had been making progress. “When we panicked and told the doctor, he told us to make a video and send it to the chief minister,” he told Al Jazeera. “His lungs had ruptured, so a ventilator was the only way to stabilise his condition.”