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Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year. 

Amid India's devastating COVID-19 surge, one doctor works 27-hour shifts but knows he can't save everyone.

Alasdair Pal 11 minute read Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn’t even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. As India's healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that includes a grim overnight shift in charge of the emergency room at his New Delhi hospital.

11:45 PM, May 05, 2021 / LAST MODIFIED: 11:52 PM, May 05, 2021 In one of India’s best hospitals, a 26-year-old doctor decides who lives and dies as Covid-19 patients rush in Dr Rohan Aggarwal is the one that must decide what happens when patients come to him gasping for breath.PHOTO: REUTERS REUTERS, NEW DELHI REUTERS, NEW DELHI Dr Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor that must decide who will live and who will die when pa...

Medical students to be sent to Covid frontlines as India’s hospitals face collapse ‘We have stretched ourselves as much as we can,’ warns one doctor, amid a shortage of equipment, beds and staff 4 May 2021 • 3:41pm Patients are being treated in tents set up on roads as hospitals are overwhelmed Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP A shortage of health workers – on top of a lack of oxygen and hospital beds – is compounding India's fight against Covid-19, with trainee doctors and nurses set to be deployed on hospital front lines. India's healthcare system has collapsed under the weight of ...