![]() “There are people lined up outside the hospital trying to get in and every day we are getting calls every 30 seconds from someone trying to find a bed,” said Thadhani. Ten days ago, the hospital ran out of oxygen, but alternative supplies were found just in time. ![]() He said now his hospital was “completely full and if a patient gets discharged, the bed is filled within minutes”. By Sunday, #ModiMadeDisaster began trending on Twitter.ĭoctors on the frontline broke down, speaking of the deluge of dying Covid patients they had been unable to treat due to a lack of beds and inadequate state and central government preparation.ĭr Amit Thadhani, director of Niramaya hospital in Mumbai, which is only treating Covid patients, said he had given warnings about a virulent second wave back in February but they had gone ignored. Three candidates running in the election have died from the virus. On Saturday, the same day as Modi’s rally, the state registered 7,713 new cases – the highest since the pandemic began. In West Bengal, where Modi’s government has refused to curtail the drawn-out state elections that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to win, Modi and his home minister, Amit Shah, continued their public meetings and roadshows into this week even as queues of ambulances lined up outside hospitals across India. And that gave the virus the chance to rise again.” “Victory was declared prematurely and that ebullient mood was communicated across the country, especially by politicians who wanted to get the economy going and wanted to get back to campaigning. “Leadership across the country did not adequately convey that this was an epidemic which had not gone away,” said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India. ![]() A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad.
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