text: Unlike the primary wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the second wave has affected rural India as nicely, with oxygen scarcity crippling therapy of sufferers at hospitals. Bihar's Buxar district is going through an identical disaster, and the outdated Sadar Hospital, which homes a Covid-19 care centre, has been pressured to show away sufferers resulting from a scarcity of medical oxygen.
  Vinod, a resident of Kasrai village in Buxar, stated he introduced his father to the centre for hospitalisation after his oxygen degree dropped to 51. However, he was turned away because it had no oxygen provide left. "Doctors are saying no oxygen bed available, take him somewhere else," Vinod stated.
  Outside the Covid-19 care centre, a helpline quantity has additionally been listed. When contacted by this reporter, the particular person on the road stated, "We already have another patient waiting. We are going to discharge a patient and then we will admit him. We have no oxygen and only two beds are empty. If we don't have any oxygen, then how do we admit new patients."
  Vinod shouldn't be alone. There are a number of Covid-19 sufferers who've been turned away by the hospital authorities resulting from lack of oxygen provide. Sonu was seen sitting below a tree together with his brother, who's in a crucial situation after his oxygen degree dropped to 64.
  Besides the oxygen disaster, the negligence of the administration in following Covid-19 protocols was additionally seen on the Buxar Covid-19 centre (Source: India Today)
  "My brother's oxygen level has dropped. I first went to new Sadar hospital and they sent me to Covid-19 care centre. Now they are saying the hospital is full and there is no bed," Sonu stated.
  Besides the oxygen disaster, the negligence of the administration in following Covid-19 protocols was additionally seen. Relatives and members of the family had been seen sitting with Covid-19 sufferers contained in the ward with out sporting PPE kits. The hospital doesn't even have fundamental medicines and family are being requested to acquire them from exterior.
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  "My mother is admitted here and I am being told to get medicines as well as the tape required for injection from outside," stated Rinku. Rinku stated there have been no preparations for Covid-19 sufferers contained in the ward and members of the family needed to maintain them.
  When requested in regards to the problem, medical officer of the hospital Dr Divya Sagar stated, "We provide Vitamin C and a kit to the patient but we do not have multi-vitamins or cough syrup and we tell the relatives to get them."
  The oxygen meter reveals zero on the outdated Sadar Hospital. However, some assist is given to these in dire want. Mohan Prasad, who works in the native collectorate, stated his father, a Congress chief, died resulting from alleged negligence by the hospital authorities.
  Another Covid-19 care centre, which is 20 km from Buxar town in Dumra area, is no better off (Source: India Today)
  Another Covid-19 care centre, which is 20 km from Buxar city in Dumra space, isn't any higher off. Here, India Today discovered that ambulances had been being despatched to refill oxygen cylinders.
  The supervisor of this centre, Chandrashekhar, claimed that they had oxygen provide for 200 individuals. However, a Covid-19 affected person's husband stated no oxygen was accessible, debunking the supervisor's claims.
  "My wife's oxygen level has dropped and she cannot breathe. These people are saying there is no oxygen available. The manager says go to doctor and the doctor asks us to go to manager," stated Rekha Sharma's husband. However, she was lastly given oxygen after the reporter flagged the problem.