‘Second wave peak nowhere in sight’
April 22, 2021
Covid patients in ambulances waiting for admission at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on Thursday - VIJAY SONEJI
Covid patients in ambulances waiting for admission at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on Thursday - VIJAY SONEJI×
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As India reported the world’s highest-ever daily Covid-19 spike of around 3.14 lakh cases experts cautioned that the peak of the second wave is yet to come.
With hospitals under tremendous stress and severe shortage of beds, medicines, and ventilators, many feel that this situation could have been avoided with some foresight.
Amid crippling shortages of hospital beds and oxygen, healthcare workers are struggling to save lives
April 20, 2021
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Ever since the second wave of the pandemic started, the healthcare system in India has been teetering on the brink
Sanjay , a resident doctor at the Government Medical College in Nagpur, agonises over how he could do nothing as patients collapsed to death right in front of him.
“We are unable to help them because there are simply no beds and oxygen supplies for all the patients flooding in,” he says. The situation is so dire amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that even three patients are put together in one bed oftentimes, he says.