HOUSTON: Indian-Origin Billionaire Pledges $10 Million For Oxygen Supplies To India

HOUSTON: Indian-American billionaire
businessman Vinod Khosla pledged USD 10 million for the supply of medical
oxygen to hospitals in India.

This is
in continuation with the Sun Microsystems co-founder’s efforts to fund
hospitals for oxygen supplies amid a surge in COVID cases in the country.

Taking to Twitter recently, he said there was a need to save lives as further delay may end up in more 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,” Mr Khosla said.