Local doctors speak on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India
LOS ANGELES - As COVID-19 rages across India, the staggering health emergency there is reverberating all the way to Los Angeles.
The country halfway across the globe from Los Angeles is in dire need of physicians. On Friday, I spoke to doctors who were born in India but immigrated to the U.S. They are torn wanting to offer medical help to India, yet knowing they can’t travel there during the surge.
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Both physicians practice medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Pooja Nawathe and Dr. Dechu Puliyanda expressed deep concern for loved ones in India. While they have family in the United States, they are still tied emotionally to India. Both their mothers live there.