Thousands of private doctors, their family members and other stakeholders like pharmacy owners took to the streets of Jaipur on Monday in a massive show of strength.
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.