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Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year. 

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

Alasdair Pal 11 minute read 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 Indias healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday th...

11:45 PM, May 05, 2021 / LAST MODIFIED: 11:52 PM, May 05, 2021 In one of India’s best hospitals, a 26-year-old doctor decides who lives and dies as Covid-19 patients rush in Dr Rohan Aggarwal is the one that must decide what happens when patients come to him gasping for breath.PHOTO: REUTERS REUTERS, NEW DELHI REUTERS, NEW DELHI Dr Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of th...

Medical students to be sent to Covid frontlines as India’s hospitals face collapse ‘We have stretched ourselves as much as we can,’ warns one doctor, amid a shortage of equipment, beds and staff 4 May 2021 • 3:41pm Patients are being treated in tents set up on roads as hospitals are overwhelmed Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP A shortage of health workers – on top of a lack of oxygen and hospital beds – is compounding Indias fight against Covid-19, with trainee doctors and nurses set t...

COVID-19: Doctors scramble for oxygen supplies as Indias coronavirus crisis worsens Nearly two weeks after India began hitting global record highs with the number of daily coronavirus infections, hospitals are still suffering from an acute shortage of oxygen supplies. The capitals authorities have asked for the army to be brought in to help set up and run coronavirus health facilities in New Delhi. Our Sky News team spent the day in a New Delhi hospital and found the doctors in a ...

Inside the ‘war room’ connecting India’s Covid sick with hospitals and medicine As the country’s healthcare system collapses, volunteers step up to fill the void left by government inaction Health workers treat Covid-19 patients at a makeshift hospital in New Delhi, India Credit: STR/AP Sandwiched between a rooftop bar and an arcade of clothes shops, the small call centre does not look like the frontline in the fight against India’s devastating Covid-19 epidemic. But once the doors sw...

Amit Roy   |     |   Published 01.05.21, 03:05 AM How is India’s Covid nightmare — the images from the cremation grounds will haunt us for a long time — being reported in the UK? Journalists have relied on Indian consultants in the NHS and now their counterparts in India to tell us what’s been going on. Dr Zarir Udwadia from Mumbai told Mishal Husain on BBC Radio 4: “The situati...

A Covid-19 patient at the emergency ward at Holy Family Hospital in Delhi | Danish Siddiqui/Reuters The devastation caused by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India is being particularly felt in the capital. In Delhi, death and despair have maintained lockstep with the virus’s unrelenting spread. Delhi on Thursday reported 24,235 infections and 395 official deaths, although reports from the city’s crematoriums suggest that the toll is much higher. Heart-ren...

THE STANDARD ASIA By Reuters | April 29th 2021 Healthcare workers place the body of a person, who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), on the ground for cremation at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2021. [Reuters] India’s total Covid-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. Indi...