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Covid rips through rural Indiaâs threadbare healthcare system
The pandemic overwhelming the big cities is reaching areas of Bihar where there is one doctor for 40,000 people
Health workers wearing protective gear ride a tractor as they sanitise a street with disinfectant amid the coronavirus pandemic in India. Photograph: Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP/Getty Images
Health workers wearing protective gear ride a tractor as they sanitise a street with disinfectant amid the coronavirus pandemic in India. Photograph: Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP/Getty Images
Fri 7 May 2021 12.57 EDT
Last modified on Fri 7 May 2021 14.24 EDT
In the small rural village of Kathail, in the east of Indiaâs poorest state, Bihar, access to healthcare has always been scarce. But when 34-year-old Umakant Singh fell sick with a cough and fever last week, his brother Mantu Singh did all he could to find help.