Liam Smedley is believed to be the last Kiwi to make it home before India went into full lockdown.

﻿Kiwis stuck in India are running out of medication and money, being kicked out of hotels, and one risks giving birth without her husband.

A growing support network of about 300 travellers scattered across the south Asian country are campaigning to have the Government charter a mercy flight home, with many reporting feeling abandoned.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday the decision to rescue travellers in Peru was based on "some very specific issues" and the nature of its lockdown, but she would look into the situation for Kiwis in India.

Supplied Shelly Wadhwa, from Hamilton, is stranded in India with depleting asthma medication. She cannot source any equivalent drugs there, and desperately needs to come home.

Nearly 800 Kiwis are registered on SafeTravel as being in India, including 225 who live there. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is simply telling them to "shelter in place".

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Former Black Caps cricket coach Mike Hesson is among them, in Bengaluru while working for Royal Challengers Bangalore,

supplied Liam Smedley, back right, travelled in a rental car for 26 hours with a group of European backpackers to Kolkata to escape India amid the coronavirus chaos.

Hamilton's Shelly Wadhwa is stranded in Noida, near New Delhi, and struggling to source her asthma medication.

"I visited six different nearby chemists and was told that it is out of stock. They are not sure when they will start getting the stock again."

She had about 10 days' worth left, but "because I'm in India I'm taking it even more because of the pollution". There were no equivalent medications available.

Thousands flee New Delhi as the 21-day lockdown effectively puts workers living off daily earnings out of work.

"The global crisis that we are going through is a respiratory illness. I have kept well until now, but I am now starting to worry."

Gideon Sekar's wife is 30 weeks' pregnant and stranded in Chennai.

"The emotion kills me when I think I can't be with my wife when she gives birth," he told supporters on the COVID 19 - Kiwis stuck in India Facebook group.

One Kiwi backpacker, who sweet-talked his way on to a German mercy flight to get home from India on Friday told Stuff the Government should be bringing its people home because of increasingly dangerous unrest there.

Liam Smedley, 29, experienced violence and abuse while trying to escape, but said the embassy offered little help.

He has now made it his mission to help those left behind while holed up in quarantine at an Auckland hotel.

"No-one knew that it was going to be this crazy. A lot of people tried to book flights home, and it was too late."

Morag Lavich, who is desperately trying to get her parents Don, 72, and Marian Stuart, 69, home from New Delhi, heard of other country's mercy flights leaving from there, Mumbai, and Goa. She remained hopeful New Zealand would do the same.

One member of the Facebook group was quoted about $1800 per passenger to charter a flight out, but it needed diplomatic approval.

Ardern's promise to look into it was a "step in the right direction", Lavich said.

Many Kiwis were regularly being kicked out of hotels as they closed down, and having to break their bubbles to find new ones, she said.

Smedley said every Kiwi was willing to pay to get home.

An MFAT spokeswoman said the advice was to stay put "until options to leave become available", given India's lockdown and the increasing difficulties getting home.

The High Commission in New Delhi was "actively supporting" Kiwis there.

"We understand how upsetting it is for New Zealanders stranded overseas, and the stresses that many Kiwis, and their family and friends are facing."

It was navigating "extremely complex circumstances" and working to help people whose travel home had been "thwarted", the spokeswoman said.