Indian Health System Collapses as Grieving Relatives Attack Doctors Published April 28th, 2021 - 07:09 GMT
Family members and ambulance workers in PPE carry the body of a victim who died of the Covid-19 coronavirus at a cremation ground in New Delhi. (AFP)
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Attack comes as India s health system collapses under the weight of the world s worst second wave of Covid .
Doctors in India are being attacked by relatives of Covid victims as anger mounts over the country s collapsing healthcare system which has been crippled by a brutal second wave.
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In one piece of footage shot in Delhi today, a group of men can be seen attacking medics and security guards with a large wooden stick after their 67-year-old relative died in the waiting room because no ICU beds were available.
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The first Oxygen Express train for Delhi carrying around 70 tonnes of the life-saving gas reached the national capital early Tuesday morning. The number of Covid deaths in a day in Delhi touched 380 on Monday the highest till date. Earlier, on Thursday and Saturday, the capital had reported 357 deaths in a day. With the lockdown extended by a week, the crowds of migrant workers returning to their home villages began to swell again at the city’s bus terminals. Government officials claimed they were mostly going back to UP for the panchayat elections, but the lockdown extension had brought more searching for buses on Monday. Stay with TOI for all updates