“””We are helpless… never seen such a situation before… people are panicking…”” – the desperate words of an overworked and traumatised Mumbai doctor driven to tears as an avalanche of Covid-positive patients threatens to overrun the medical infrastructure in one of the world’s biggest cities An appeal by Dr Trupti Gilada, an infectious diseases specialist, was widely shared on Tuesday – as the scale of the crisis – the lack of hospital beds, ever-increasing daily new cases, shortage of vaccines and crucial drugs like Remdesivir, and the oxygen crisis – becomes clear.
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