Throughout May 2021 deaths had surged to several thousand a day in India, as this oxygen under-supply crisis rendered hospitals unable to provide this basic medical asset for their patients requiring intensive care. But oxygen shortage were not limited to India, the same happened in the preceding months as Brazil was battered by COVID, and in the following months in Argentina, Iran, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, South Africa, Indonesia, and many more countries. A second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India in March 2021 and the country was gripped by a health crisis, one made worse by shortages of vaccines, medicines, hospital beds, and especially oxygen cylinders.What can be done to solve these medical oxygen shortages?

