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Hospital to crematorium: A teenage Covid victimâs last journey
Kajal Kamat, 18, died after a week battling the malady in Delhiâs LNJP Hospital.
Mortuary workers accompany a body to assist with the last rites.
Itâs 1 pm on Friday, the day Delhi would report 348 Covid fatalities, and I am outside the emergency ward of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, the state governmentâs largest Covid treatment facility. A signboard on the premises declares the grim situation in big red letters â Beds Available: Nil.
A young woman sees my press card and walks over. Her sister was admitted three days ago, she says, and she and her brother-in-law have been waiting outside since. Why are they waiting, I ask, they wonât be allowed in to see her? âIn case she needs anything,â she replies. âWhat if they run out of oxygen and we have to get it for her at a moment s notice?â