Even as reports of COVID-19 patients dying due to shortage of oxygen in hospitals pour in from various parts of the country, and hospitals from across the country are scrambling for oxygen supply to save lives, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut said people who are using oxygen should also pledge to work on improving the air quality.
In a series of tweets, the controversial Bollywood actor said everyone is building oxygen plans and getting oxygen cylinders, but "are we compensating for all the oxygen that we are forcefully drawing from the environment."
"Everybody is building more and more oxygen plants, getting tons and tons of oxygen cylinders, how are we compensating for all the oxygen that we are forcefully drawing from the environment? It seems we learnt nothing from our mistakes and catastrophes they cause," the actor said in a tweet.
"Along with announcing more and more oxygen for humans, governments must announce relief for nature also, people who are using this oxygen should also pledge to work on improving the air quality, for how long we going to be miserable pests only taking never giving back to nature," she further said.
Along with announcing more and more oxygen for humans, governments must announce relief for nature also, people who are using this oxygen should also pledge to work on improving the air quality, for how long we going to be miserable pests only taking never giving back to nature?
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) May 3, 2021
On Monday, 24 patients, 23 of them COVID-infected, died in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital.
