Rashmi Sawant, Deputy Head of Nursing, Global Hospital, Mumbai, narrates her experience of working with COVID-19 patients. It’s our job, she reiterates.
With the second wave of the pandemic and the resultant localised lockdowns pulling down economic activity in April, Swiss brokerage UBS on Tuesday said this will impact the first quarter GDP to some extent. The UBS India activity indicator, which is a mea
The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak has reached the southern states of India. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karntaka are grappling with the sharp spike in cases.
COVID-19: Trainee Doctors , Nurses Exams Postponed to Free Them Up for Service
Despite the warning of a new wave from scientific advisors early in March, the government did not take any action to curtail the spread of the virus.
A health worker in PPE collects a sample swab from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease, at a platform in Mumbai, Indiam March 17, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas/File photo
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New Delhi/Mumbai: The Centre postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen.
It’s not just India. Fierce new Covid-19 waves are enveloping other developing countries across the world, placing severe strain on their health-care systems and prompting appeals for help. Nations ranging from Laos to Thailand in Southeast Asia, and those bordering India such as Bhutan and Nepal, have been reporting significant surges in infections in the past few weeks. The increase is mainly because of more contagious virus variants, though complacency and lack of resources to contain the spread have also been cited as reasons. In Laos last week, the health minister sought medical equipment, supplies and treatment, as cases jumped more than 200-fold in a month. Nepal is seeing hospitals quickly filling up and running out of oxygen supplies. Health facilities are under pressure in Thailand, where 98% of new cases are from a more infectious strain of the pathogen, while some island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing their first Covid waves.