A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh has been suspended from the party for falsely implicating the mother of a rape victim and threatening her to have her jailed.
BJP state chief Arun Sao suspended Hakeem Mohammad, a local corporator and Secretary of the
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Gasping for air
By Reuters Published: May 06, 2021 06:03 PM Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60 kilometers from his home in India s eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the center of the nation s devastating COVID-19 crisis.
Health workers in PPE check a COVID-19 patient to an isolation ward at the temporary COVID-19 Care facility center attached to LNJP Hospital, at Shehnai Banquet in New Delhi, India, on April 29. Photo: VCGHis death last week followed a frantic journey and dozens of phone calls by desperate relatives in search of a hospital bed and oxygen supplies, as a nationwide surge in coronavirus disease cases exposes the limitations of health facilities in the countryside.
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CHENNAI/MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60 km (35 miles) from his home in India s eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the centre of the nation s devastating COVID-19 crisis.
Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60km (35 miles) from his home in India’s eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the centre of the nation’s devastating COVID-19 crisis.
His death last week followed a frantic journey and dozens of phone calls by desperate relatives in search of a hospital bed and oxygen supplies, as a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases exposes the limitations of health facilities in the countryside.
“We admitted him wherever we found a bed. It was a nursing home but wasn’t functioning like one. Patients were getting their own oxygen,” said Kameshwar Kumar, Vinod’s brother.