2:35 PM As India battles the second wave of covid, the grim realities of acute shortages of beds, plasma, medicines, oxygen and live saving drugs have left the country in shock. India has reported more than 4 lakh new COIVD-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike since the start of the pandemic. Healthcare and medical infrastructure has collapsed nationwide and doctors and medical team are living on the edge in trying to provide treatment to the covid patients. In several horrifying incidents, disrespecting and manhandling doctors treating COVID-19 patients have been reported where families and attendants rough up with the doctors and medical team. In few instances political leaders were also seen threatening the doctors on duty. In one such instances, at the Manavta Curie Hospital in the Mumbai Naka area, a week ago, corporator Priyanka Ghate was seen attacking and manhandling the doctors and staff after here brother succumbed. This incident triggered outrage among private medical practitioners who have been at the forefront of the battle against the second wave of the pandemic.