LankaWeb – 'This is a catastrophe': India looked like it had beaten Covid, but cases are now skyrocketing
Posted on April 17th, 2021 Shweta Sharma and Samuel Lovett Courtesy The Independent An elderly woman gasped for air at the main 1,000-bed Covid hospital in Mumbai, India, even as a ventilator pumped oxygen into her lungs. She collapsed after hours of struggling for each breath, but came round again after doctors performed CPR to stimulate her heart back to life. Dr Sharad Achwar knew she would not survive. The infection had ravaged her lungs. Her daughter was called from the hospital and told: Your mother has a few hours.” The daughter was furious at first, replyi...
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