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For most of the past 11 months, Dr Sushila Kataria has worked 15 hours a day, seven days a week, attending to a rising tide of Covid-19 patients at Medanta Hospital, a large private institution in the outskirts of New Delhi.
Since the first cases in hospital – of Italian tourists who fell ill in March – Medanta has treated more than 11,000 Covid patients in its wards, intensive care units, quarantine facilities in hotels and home care programs. The Covid load peaked in November, with around 450 patients hospitalized and another 50 to 100 on a waiting list for beds.
“It was totally overwhelming,” said Dr Kataria, an infectious disease specialist who heads the service at Medanta. “November was the worst month. We could only see as many patients as we could refer. We were taking care of very, very sick patients in the outpatient clinic because there was no room in the hospital. USI. “
Updated Jan 17, 2021 · 04:42 pm A healthcare worker receives a coronavirus vaccine shot on the first day of the vaccination drive in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on January 16. | Amit Dave/ Reuters
A total of 1,91,181 beneficiaries
were
vaccinated on the first day of India’s coronavirus vaccination drive as the country kickstarted its inoculation campaign with two locally manufactured shots, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.
No case of post-vaccination hospitalisation was reported as of Saturday evening, it added.
The first dose was administered to a sanitation worker at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the campaign with a nationally televised speech.
India starts world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination drive
By Staff | Jan 17, 2021
A health worker is being administered COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
NEW DELHI (AP) India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway.
India is home to the world’s largest vaccine makers and has one of the biggest immunization programs. But there is no playbook for the enormity of the current challenge.