Cannon fodder : Medical students in India feel betrayed
NEHA MEHROTRA and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, Associated Press
April 27, 2021
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1of8An exhausted municipal worker rests after bringing the body of a person who died of COVID-19 for burial in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. As India suffers a bigger, more infectious second wave with a caseload of more than 300,000 new cases a day, the country’s healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the disaster.Anupam Nath/APShow MoreShow Less
2of8Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. As India suffers a bigger, more infectious second wave with a caseload of more than 300,000 new cases a day, the country’s healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the disaster.Channi Anand/APShow MoreShow Less
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Hospital staff transport a COVID-19 patient in a hospital complex in New Delhi on Apr 23, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Maude Brulard)
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NEW DELHI: Since the beginning of the week, Dr Siddharth Tara, a postgraduate medical student at New Delhi’s government-run Hindu Rao Hospital, has had a fever and persistent headache. He took a COVID-19 test, but the results have been delayed as the country’s health system implodes.
His hospital, overburdened and understaffed, wants him to keep working until the testing laboratory confirms he has COVID-19.
Relatives of 67-year-old Covid victim attacked medics in Delhi today as anger at virus response grows
Last week, another medic was beaten in Pune by relatives of a 65-year-old patient that he couldn t save
Attack comes as India s health system collapses under the weight of the world s worst second wave of Covid
Medics in neighbouring Pakistan are now warning they could be next as military is deployed to help enforce new mask wearing rules and strict 6pm curfew
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