Virus fears mount as Delhi hospital beds run out
A man in an ambulance outside the coronavirus ward at the the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital in New Delhi. – AFP pic, June 14, 2020.
ASHWANI Jain succumbed to the coronavirus in an ambulance as his family pleaded with several hospitals to take him in, the latest victim of the pandemic sweeping through the Indian capital and exposing a deadly shortage of hospital beds. “They don’t care whether we live or die,” said his 20-year-old daughter Kashish, whose uncle, Abhishek, sat with Ashwani in the back of the vehicle on its desperate journey across Delhi.
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