Everyone here is gasping for Oxgen and as a response the affluent Indians world over donated. Startups in India bought so many oxygen cylinders, NRIs donated to non profits buying oxygen cylinders, and students gathered to buy oxygen cylinders.
At the end of the wave, whats going to happen to these oxygen cylinders? Will they be redeployed into hospitals? Will they be given to ambulances? Those of us who bought them just to be safe- are we going to let them languish in our store rooms to be thrown away in the next few years?
It feels like everyone buying oxygen isnt a very smart idea longterm. But how could the donations have been used to improve the foundation on India's healthcare? Do those cylinders in some way make our healthcare system a little more reliable? I know its easy to pontificate on it after the fact, and the need then was oxygen. So people were right in overbuying those.
Who should ahve guided non profits on whats the right thing to do?
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