Billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla pledges $10 million for oxygen provides to Indian hospitals

Indian-American billionaire businessman Vinod Khosla pledged $10 million for the provision of medical oxygen to hospitals in India.
This is in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder’s efforts to fund hospitals for oxygen provides amid a surge in Covid instances within the nation.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he mentioned there was a necessity to save lots of lives as additional delay might find yourself in additional deaths.
“For @GiveIndia this isn’t enough. They’ve received requests for 20,000 oxygen concentrators, 15,000 cylinders, 500 ICU beds, 100 ventilators, 10,000-beds Covid centres with requests coming from non-profits & hospitals all across India every day. We need to do a lot more urgently,” Khosla mentioned.

The Khosla Family is including $10m to @GiveIndia to it’s earlier dedication as a match and hoping others will be a part of on this pressing want. There is massive and really pressing wants & a day’s delay prices lives. One day at one hospital with out oxygen had 8 individuals die gasping for breadth!
— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) May 2, 2021
“The Khosla Family is adding USD 10 million to @GiveIndia to its previous commitment as a match and hoping others will join in this urgent need,” Khosla mentioned.
India is fighting a second wave of the pandemic with greater than 3,00,000 new coronavirus instances being reported day by day and hospitals in a number of states reeling beneath a scarcity of medical oxygen and beds.