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Cries for help go out on Twitter amid the despair of India’s COVID crisis
- Wednesday | 21st April, 2021
“Serious #covid19 patient in #Delhi with oxygen level 62 needs immediate hospital bed,” Shiv, part of a 350-member COVID-19 volunteer Medical Support Group, said on Twitter late last week. In response, people are bypassing the conventional lines of communication and turning to Twitter to crowdsource help for oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and other requirements. “Twitter is having to do what the government helpline numbers should be doing,” wrote Twitter user Karanbir Singh. On Monday, journalist Sweta Dash posted a plea for help on Twitter to find bed with a ventilator for a pregnant woman in New Delhi. (Reporting by Devjyot Ghoshal and Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by Robert Birsel)Related article: Digital platform anchoring India’s massive COVID-19 vaccination drive
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