Covid hospitals in Delhi

Pandemic second wave rages on as Modi remains missing

Pandemic second wave rages on as Modi remains missing

May 7, 2021

The last two weeks have been the bloodiest for India since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in February 2020. Practically every single day, new highs are being reported, both in fresh daily infections as well as in death toll due to the pandemic, with over 400,000 new cas...

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Delhi continues to fight for life as Covid-19 rages on

Delhi continues to fight for life as Covid-19 rages on

May 3, 2021

“I lost my maternal aunt today, who was staying with my mother for the past 40 years. We lost her only because we could not get a single bed for her in an Intensive Care Unit. I stay in Mumbai but when I got to know that she is unwell, I flew here to take […]

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With oxygen going rare, Delhi gasps for breath of life

With oxygen going rare, Delhi gasps for breath of life

April 28, 2021

 Kayam Raza, a resident of Jaitpur Khadda Colony has been waiting in the queue since morning to get his oxygen cylinder refilled. Raza, whose 70-year-old mother is sick and in urgent need of oxygen, says he could not get her admitted in any hospital and has been waiting to ...

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Crematoriums, corpses and chaos

Crematoriums, corpses and chaos

April 24, 2021

 “First we had to run a lot to keep him alive, now after his death also we have to struggle to arrange the cremation,” says a young man as he was waiting at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat, for his turn to conduct the final rites of his relative who had succumbed to Covid-19. ...

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Second wave of coronavirus renders hospitals in Delhi hopeless

Second wave of coronavirus renders hospitals in Delhi hopeless

April 23, 2021

   Ever since the pandemic broke last year, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital in Delhi has been at the forefront of the capital’s fight against Covid19, leading the charge of hospitals run by the Delhi government in the city. But while it proved effective last year, in fac...

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