The Indian Covid-19 crisis explained in maps, charts and graphics
The country has a chronic shortage of space on its intensive care wards, with many patients' families forced to drive for miles to try to find a bed for their loved one.
"We have been roaming around for three days searching for a bed," one man told Reuters news agency as his wife sat immobile on the pavement.On Monday, the government announced military medical infrastructure would be made available to civilians and retired medical military personnel would be helping out in Covid health facilities.Hospitals across India are also experiencing oxygen shortages, with some forced to put up signs warning of a lack of supplies.
Dr Harjit Singh Bhatti, who works on a Covid ward of Delhi's Manipal Hospital, described watching people gasping for air in the street like "fish out of water".Typically, healthcare facilities consume about 15% of oxygen supply in India, leaving the rest for industrial use. About 4,000 Indian Railways coaches, adapted in March 2020, are being brought back into use to to help treat Covid patients with mild to moderate symptoms.
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