Mujib Mashal and Sameer Yasir, The New York Times
Published: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST
Updated: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST
Health care workers help patients at a makeshift facility in Delhi on April 30, 2021. More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections, and many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
The shifts are long, the wards full, the demand so urgent that medical students and interns have been coaxed into filling in. Hundreds of workers have died. Family members at home have fallen ill.