A health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment gear stands with a patient getting transferred to an intensive care unit in Mumbai
NEW DELHI – Delhi hospitals issued desperate appeals for oxygen on Friday and 13 Covid patients died in a fire, as India’s healthcare system buckles under a new wave of infections.
The surge in cases, blamed on a new virus variant and the government allowing “super spreader” public events to go ahead, saw another 330,000 new infections and 2,000 deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
The latest in a string of fires at hospitals broke out on the outskirts of Mumbai early Friday morning, a local official told AFP. It has since been put out and the cause was being investigated.
“There were 17 patients inside when a fire broke out in the ICU of Vijay Vallabh Hospital, out of…
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