Ashish Srivastava
Apr 25, 2021 9:20 PM ET
I ve visited the Covid wards in several of New Delhi s biggest state-run hospitals. One, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, turned its car park into an intensive care ward. Patients are on stretchers in the corridors. Each bed contains as many as three or four patients, all sharing a single cylinder of oxygen.
Even the most seriously ill, those on ventilators, are having the amount of oxygen in their blood capped at 94 per cent. Normal levels are 95 per cent. Even being admitted is no guarantee they ll be treated. Families are being forced to bring in their own food, medicines and oxygen. There are fights on the streets as relatives desperately battle for any supplies.
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For Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, covering India s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is a daily circuit of crematoriums, cemeteries and hospitals, capturing the struggles of a nation of 1.4 billion people.
From that experience, he knew the situation at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, a government-run facility in the capital New Delhi with 400 COVID ICU beds, might be chaotic.
But he was not prepared for what he saw on Friday: critical patients gasping for air on trolleys outside the already-full hospital ICU, some dying before ever being admitted
23 Apr 2021. New Delhi, India. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Shayam Narayan is brought to the coronavirus disease casualty ward by his family members in a rickshaw
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Documenting the death of a COVID-19 patient outside a Delhi hospital
A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) waits to get admitted outside the casualty ward at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, amidst the spread of the disease in New Delhi, India, on Apr 23, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)
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NEW DELHI: For Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, covering India s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is a daily circuit of crematoriums, cemeteries and hospitals, capturing the struggles of a nation of 1.4 billion people.
A picture and its story: Documenting the death of a Covid-19 patient outside a Delhi hospital
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New Delhi - For Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, covering India s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is a daily circuit of crematoriums, cemeteries and hospitals, capturing the struggles of a nation of 1.4 billion people.
From that experience, he knew the situation at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, a government-run facility in the capital New Delhi with 400 Covid ICU beds, might be chaotic.
But he was not prepared for what he saw on Friday: critical patients gasping for air on trolleys outside the already-full hospital ICU, some dying before ever being admitted.
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