What do Indian COVID patients go through after testing positive? As India's health care system buckles under the weight of COVID, people are being left to fend for themselves. DW asked the daughter of a COVID patient about her experience trying to help her sick father. Hospital staff are overworked as they try to care for a seemingly endless line of patients Anamika (name changed) was making one phone call after another in the middle of the night on April 14 to get an ambulance and a hospital bed for her father, who was gasping for breath. She found out earlier in the evening that both of her parents had tested positive for the coronavirus. But the condition of her father, who is in his early 60s, began deteriorating soon after midnight.