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Rickshaw ‘ambulance’ offers free oxygen to India’s COVID patients

Al Jazeera, 09 May 2021
As India grapples with a harrowing COVID-19 crisis that has seen infections skyrocket and the healthcare system stretched to breaking point, some rickshaw drivers have stepped forward to try and help their local communities.
More than a dozen rickshaw owners have converted their three-wheeled vehicles into small ambulances to offer free service to patients and their families amid a huge oxygen crisis.

Al Jazeera's Pavni Mittal reports from New Delhi, India.

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