With Tamil Nadu recording over 21,000 Covid cases a day, the need for beds and oxygen has increased exponentially. The state has 85,000 beds, of which 35,000 carry oxygen points. Chennai alone has 6,000 oxygen beds.
The biggest struggle that patients and their relatives face is finding beds. Several patients reach hospitals but cannot get beds and many are seen gasping for air in ambulances outside hospitals.
To ease the crisis, Jain International Trade Organization has come up with 'Oxygen on Wheels'. Several school buses currently not being used have been modified to accommodate six patients each and are occupied with 6 oxygen concentrators and cylinders to patients waiting outside hospitals.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, legal expert Harish Salve discussed the constitutional crisis in West Bengal following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign despite losing her seat and the decisive mandate against her party.
An India Today ground report from Tehran details the ongoing conflict, its impact on the city's infrastructure and how Iranians have gathered at Enghelab Square to demonstrate solidarity and unity amid war.
The Congress state unit in Tamil Nadu held an online meeting and decided to extend support to TVK. Congress is seeking a power-sharing agreement and is likely to demand two cabinet portfolios, along with a few board and corporation chairman posts, and other government roles such as trust members and directors.
Watch as India Today's Geeta Mohan brings this exclusive ground report from Iran's fourteenth-century Golestan Palace, which was damaged during the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran.
