Delhi: 2 COVID Patients share bed in overburdened Lok Nayak Hospital amid surging Cases
"We are definitely over burdened. We are already working at full capacity," said the hospital's medical director, Suresh Kumar.;
New Delhi: Gasping for air, two men wearing oxygen masks share a bed in a government hospital in India's capital New Delhi, victims of the country's growing COVID-19 crisis.
From reporting under 10,000 new daily cases earlier this year, daily infections crossed 200,000 on Thursday, according to official data, the highest anywhere in the world.
At Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), one of India's largest COVID-only facilities with more than 1,500 beds, a stream of ambulances ferried patients to the overflowing casualty ward on Thursday.
Some also arrived in buses and three-wheeled autorickshaws.
The youngest patient was a new-born baby.
"We are definitely over-burdened. We are already working at full capacity," said the hospital's medical director, Suresh Kumar.
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