Coronavirus infections and deaths mount in rural India — Quartz India
April 29, 2021 On the evening of April 23, Dhanraj Singh, a 40-year blind man, arrived at the Sikanderpur community health centre in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, complaining of breathlessness. Singh, a resident of the nearby Bansi Bazar village, was running a temperature too. According to the doctor who attended to him, Singh collapsed within “hardly five-seven minutes”. The body was handed over to the family. In any case, the doctor said he would not have been able to help–the centre has no oxygen supplies, not even for emergencies. Singh looked like a “suspected Covid ...
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