A woman mourns after her father died due to the coronavirus disease outside a mortuary of a Covid-19 hospital in New Delhi. (Reuters photo)
NEW DELHI: A man desperate to find a hospital bed for his extremely weak 60-year-old mother, another looking for anti-viral drug Remdevisir and a woman looking for a plasma donor for a friend s uncle fighting for his life - the grim Covid-19 situation in Delhi triggered a flurry of SOS posts on Twitter on Thursday. Some claimed that while the Delhi Corona app showed that beds are available in certain hospitals in the city, the situation on the ground is different. Hospitals are not admitting patients as they have run out of beds, they said.
Delhi: Shortage of hospital beds, plasma donors triggers flurry of SOS messages on Twitter
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Last Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 06:05 PM IST
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A man desperate to find a hospital bed for his extremely weak 60-year-old mother, another looking for anti-viral drug Remdevisir and a woman looking for a plasma donor for a friend s uncle fighting for his life - the grim COVID-19 situation in Delhi triggered a flurry of SOS posts on Twitter on Thursday.
A man desperate to find a hospital bed for his extremely weak 60-year-old mother, another looking for anti-viral drug Remdevisir and a woman looking for a plasma donor for a friend s uncle fighting for his life - the grim COVID-19 situation in Delhi triggered a flurry of SOS posts on Twitter on Thursday. Some claimed that while the Delhi Corona app showed that beds are available in certain hospitals in the city, the situation on the ground is different. Hospitals are not admitting patients as they have run out of beds, t