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Upmanyu Trivedi09:00, May 28 2021 After a terrifying month that saw Covid-19 overwhelm the country s rundown health system, doctors and nurses on the pandemic frontlines say they were pushed into physical and mental exhaustion as they fought to keep their patients alive. Mousimi Das had to treat her own mother in her Kolkata hospital as countless patients including a colleague s father died around her, working 48 hours in one stretch without a break. She has one message for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Healthcare workers care for a patient who has Covid-19 in an ICU ward at the government-run St George hospital in Mumbai, India.
Doctors describe a nightmare scenario: continued high-risk exposure to the virus, a never-ending flow of patients and deaths, and long hours in sweat-drenched PPE.
It is the silent toll of India’s deadly second wave. After a terrifying month that saw Covid-19 overwhelm the country’s run down health system, doctors and nurses on the pandemic frontlines say they were pushed into physical and mental exhaustion as they fought to keep their patients alive. Mousimi Das had to treat her own mother in her Kolkata hospital as countless patients including a colleague’s father died around her, working 48 hours in one stretch without a break. She has one message for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We are exhausted, frustrated, and depressed.” Das said over phone, her voice breaking with fatigue. “Please see us. Please hear us. If you don’t listen to doctors, nurses and staff working on the ground, you will never be able to improve the health infrastructure.”