Mujib Mashal and Sameer Yasir, The New York Times
Published: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST
Updated: 19 May 2021 12:31 PM BdST Health care workers help patients at a makeshift facility in Delhi on April 30, 2021. More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections, and many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
The shifts are long, the wards full, the demand so urgent that medical students and interns have been coaxed into filling in. Hundreds of workers have died. Family members at home have fallen ill.
Covid 19 coronavirus: For India s medical workers, danger and heartbreaking decisions
18 May, 2021 08:22 PM
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Health care workers assembling at a naval hospital in Mumbai earlier this month. Photo / Atul Loke, The New York Times
Health care workers assembling at a naval hospital in Mumbai earlier this month. Photo / Atul Loke, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Mujib Mashal and Sameer Yasir
More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections. Many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated. The shifts are long, the wards full, the demand so urgent that medical students and interns have been coaxed into filling in. Hundreds of workers have died. Family members at home have fallen ill.
On Video Call, Made By Doctor, He Sang To His Dying Mother On Video Call, Made By Doctor, He Sang To His Dying Mother Dr Dipshikha Ghosh said that this song has now taken a very different meaning for the hospital staff, including her.
A man sang a popular Hindi movie song on video call for his dying mother. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A doctor s Twitter thread describing a dying Covid patient s son singing to her on a video call has gone viral on social media and has moved many to tears.
Dipshikha Ghosh wrote in the posts that she had video-called the relatives of her patient Sanghamitra Chatterjee who is not going to make it - when her son Soham Chatterjee asked her to spare a few more minutes. He then sang to his mother. He sang a popular Hindi movie song that, she says, will never be the same to her again.