Health workers must overcome great challenges to battle one of the world s most severe COVID-19 outbreaks, which stretch from villages without hospitals to the top of the world s highest mountain.
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MUMBAI, India Outside an upscale Indian hospital last week, Baljeet Asthana put her phone on selfie mode, propped her eyeglasses on her head so she could stare directly into the camera, and hit record.
Through a white polka-dot mask, she described her family s ordeal: Her 82-year-old mother was inside the hospital struggling for her life, Asthana says. Her mother desperately needed
an intensive care unit
bed, but the hospital Fortis Hospital, one of the best-equipped private facilities in the capital New Delhi was full. Officials told the family to look for an ICU bed elsewhere.
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In New Delhi on Monday, family members cremate the body of a person who died after contracting COVID-19. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images
MUMBAI, India Outside an upscale Indian hospital last week, Baljeet Asthana put her phone on selfie mode, propped her eyeglasses on her head so she could stare directly into the camera, and hit record.
Through a white polka-dot mask, she described her family s ordeal: Her 82-year-old mother was inside the hospital struggling for her life, Asthana said. Her mother desperately needed
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Retail stores and pharmacies in the Emirates have been inundated with calls from Indians across the world, anxious to send oxygen concentrators to families back home.
Residents said the life-saving machines are an “insurance” in case relatives with Covid-19 need to be treated at home, as hospitals in India continue to face pressure due to limited numbers of beds and low oxygen availability.
Doctors describe the portable devices that extract oxygen from the air as a “bridge” to give timely assistance to mild and moderate patients when they struggle to breathe.
Pharmacies in the Emirates ran out of stocks in the past week and expect deliveries from May 10.