Vinod Khosla
Silicon Valley veteran Vinod Khosla pledges USD 10 million for oxygen supply to Indian hospitals
Indian-American billionaire businessman and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has pledged USD 10 million for supply of medical oxygen to hospitals in India, which is struggling to cope with a fierce second wave of the Coronavirus infection.
This is in continuation to the Silicon Valley veteran’s earlier promise to fund hospitals that needed to import bulk planeloads of oxygen, which had been at short supply in various parts of India because of a sudden spike in the case load.
Khosla said he would be using the online donation platform GiveIndia for making the donations and hoped others would join his efforts to save lives in India.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Khosla said: “The Khosla Family is adding $10m to @GiveIndia to it's previous commitment as a match and hoping others will join in this urgent need. There is large and very urgent needs & a day's delay costs lives. One day at one hospital without oxygen had 8 people die gasping for breadth!”.
·Khosla, however, said, “this isn't enough”.
“They've received requests for 20000 oxygen concentrators, 15000 cylinders, 500 ICU beds, 100 ventilators, 10000-beds covid centres with requests coming from non-profits & hospitals all across India every day. We need to do a lot more urgently,” he tweeted.
On April 25, when the crisis of medical oxygen gas had turned acute, Khosla took to twitter to announce he was ready to fund hospitals in India “that need funding to import bulk planeloads of oxygen or supplies into India to increase supply”.
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