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One hospital chief in New Delhi told NPR it was difficult to walk at times in the overwhelmed emergency room. "Its nearly impossible to walk sometimes in the [emergency room]," Dr. Sumit Ray, critical care chief at Holy Family Hospital, told the outlet. "Sometimes we have to keep the patient in the ER for hours, for a day or two, because we dont have a bed in the wards or in the [intensive care unit]." Overall, demand for hospital oxygen has increased sevenfold since last month, a government of...

Doctors make life-and-death decisions as Indias battle against COVID-19 rages on As Indias health-care system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, a young doctor is among the medical professionals forced to decide who will live and who will die at a New Delhi hospital. Social Sharing One resident doctors duties in a New Delhi hospital provide a glimpse of the challenge facing India Thomson Reuters · Posted: May 05, 2021 7:22 PM ET | Last Upda...

Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn’t even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. As India’s healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the coronavirus, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that includes a grim overnight shift...

Pressure grows for new national lockdown as India breaks global record with 400k daily cases Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has so far resisted imposing nationwide restrictions, is worried about a backlash over livelihoods People receive oxygen support for free at a Gurudwara Sikh temple in Ghaziabad Credit: DANISH SIDDIQUI /Reuters India’s most senior opposition politician, Rahul Gandhi, has demanded a nationwide lockdown, as pressure grows on Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, with India re...

NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - Dr Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor that must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. As Indias healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the coronavirus, Dr Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that inclu...

Amid India's devastating COVID-19 surge, one doctor works 27-hour shifts but knows he can't save everyone.

Hospitals dont have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didnt have to be this way.

Rohan Aggarwal, 26, a resident doctor treating patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), writes down notes during his 27-hour shift at Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2021. "If a patient has a fever, and I know hes sick but hes not requiring oxygen, I cant admit him," said Aggarwal. "Thats the criteria. People are dying on the streets without oxygen. So people who dont require oxygen, even if they are sick, we dont admit them usually," he added. "Another choic...

During his marathon shift, the doctor fears what will happen if he gets infected too. New Delhi: Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesnt even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. As Indias healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronav...

Originally published on May 5, 2021 2:59 pm MUMBAI, India — Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder — even an empty one. Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in Indias capital, New Delhi. She was on a ventilator in intensive care. Then the hospital told Gupta and other families that its oxygen supply had run out. So they had to go out and find oxygen cylinders to bring to the hospital to kee...