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India’s crisis shows how oxygen is a vital medicine not everyone can access

Shortages have struck hospitals around the world due to unequal distribution,

Shortages have struck hospitals around the world due to unequal distribution, but experts say there is a way to close the gap.

Oxygen is an essential medical treatment to save human lives. But, in recent weeks, it's become clear just how vital it is as India reels from a deadly surge in COVID-19 cases. Express trains are racing across the country to deliver oxygen from the eastern town of Angul to the capital of Delhi and other regions. Meanwhile, desperate pleas fill social media from people forced to helplessly watch their family members slowly suffocate.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, medical oxygen shortages have struck hospitals in Brazil, Peru, Nigeria, Jordan, Italy, and beyond. In the United States, too, oxygen supplies at hospitals in New York City and