Ground report: Can India's health infrastructure cope with the surge in covid cases?
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021 UPDATED: April 28, 2021 20:59 IST Covid patients at the LNJP hospital in Delhi Delhi The crematorium at Kalkaji, on April 16, had a line of plastic-covered people waiting outside. Only their eyes, burning with grief, were visible. They were members of 12 families who had lost their loved ones to Covid. “It took us two days of calling up friends, family and relatives just to get ventilator support for my mother. I also paid Rs 18,000 for Remdesivir treatment. By the time we got her to an ICU, she was in severe pulmonary distress and died within 18 hours,” says Suhas...
Source: indiatoday.in