hospital wards with corpses unattended in the corridors. Patients who have asked to sleep on the floor, open beds. A woman with brain damage who died because they were denied medical help until his family was proving virus could free. The public health system in Mumbai, the epicenter of the outbreak worsening of India crown is overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients and hospital staff who work around pouring all day. Medical care for non-patient Crown was effectively closed due to lack of resources. “We are opening new stations every day, but to get to the end of the day with Covid-19 filled with patients. It ‘pretty bad right now,” said Saad Ahmed, a resident physician at the national level King Edward Memorial Hospital in central Mumbai . “All stations are now Covid-19 stations, and they are full.” Despite a rigorous two-month block, the outbreak in the Indian financial capital avalanche, with the city now more than a fifth of India’s more than 5,400 deaths and 190,600 infections. The center of the pandemic shifts from New York and Europe in countries such as Brazil and India, where underfunded health infrastructure and poor living conditions provide fertile ground for the virus. budget of the victims of the virus in India has overtaken China on Thursday. A video Twitter in early May showed the bodies of victims of the virus in a hospital ward, in addition to patients on beds left to Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak State Hospital. The hospital is investigating the incident and replaced the dean. Images recently created the body unattended in the corridors of the King Edward Memorial Hospital on the left. New Untouchables authorities have in recent weeks in hospitals crowded by family members are afraid of contagion from the withdrawal denied, said Madhuri Gaikar Ramdas, a nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital. The intense fear the virus has created a new class of untouchables in India, avoided the infected and their families deported from the rental of its neighbors either. “We prepared to keep the paperwork and everything else were still body is not taken away,” said Gaikar. Hospitals emergency room see twice the number of patients that have beds for, said a doctor in a government hospital, who declined to be named for fear impact of their employer. had meant more patients oxygen gas stations and some have been bedridden for action, he said. The other bottleneck is in critical care facilities and nursing staff – doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and cleaning staff – many are infected or quarantined. “Critically ill patients who are fighting hard beds in Mumbai to get anywhere,” said Vikas Oswal, a private sector breast, sees doctor and patient in a state of Shatabdi Hospital. “It takes 12 to find a single bed in 16 hours.. The beds come immediately to the next patient in the queue filled” India has also started from the largest world Lockdown deploy incrementally, Maharashtra – the state is in Bombay – Sunday , measures of stay-at-home in the metropolis until June 30 some little slack extended on June 5, will open in Mumbai football in this way that shops and markets on alternate days. contagion Fear While other epicenters virus from Wuhan to New York and Bergamo in Italy has seen hospitals overwhelmed similar situation in Mumbai is mixed – some say they have created – better equipped by the reluctance of the massive and private health care system, participated in Virus Treatment of fear of contagion. There was a shortage of beds for intensive care or critical care and intensive care initially when the pandemic broke but now a Mumbai Virus Task Force doctor title was mitigated largely by Sanjay Oak, formed in April by the government of Maharashtra. The state government and private health facilities has taken over 80% of the beds in the general category and all intensive care beds in the city, Oak said in an e-mail. These beds “are displayed and alloted by a common dashboard” at an affordable price, he said. Despite these efforts, some patients are still crowded always off. He wanted to identify members of a family that does not stigmatize a night in the ambulance for fear of spending, after three private hospitals refused to admit her elderly diabetic mother in the hospital, who had chills of fever and convulsions. Private institutions insisted on a certificate that is virus and held to public hospitals is diverted. The woman was asked to spend the night on the floor in a state hospital, while they waited for their test results, because there were no vacancies, said one of his relatives. The family chose to take off and keep looking for other hospitals. S Kumar, a social worker in Mumbai, has struggled to get a female doctor, brain damage suffered after a fall at home. At least three major private hospitals have been told of a certificate that does not Covid-19 was before the start of treatment, according to Kumar. The woman died before their treatment could start. “Delayed treatment is denied treatment,” said Kumar, adding that he saw at least half a dozen deaths in the last six weeks, due to lack of timely medical care. Social inequality The chaotic situation has exposed the consequences of social inequality that defines ditches and executives Mumbai, where Globetrotter condominium living near the slum where their chauffeurs, cooks and cleaners of the house are. The city of deep-rooted problems make it the perfect breeding ground for the highly infectious virus, crippling the efforts of the government. It ‘also home to Dharavi, Asia usually crowded slums where up to eight people can hutment in a tin spacious 100 square feet and 80 to share a public toilet. Stigma is too complicated impeded the search for contacts and efforts of social distancing, especially in slum groups of health personnel from the police and pelted with stones. Local authorities have been aggressively ramping facilities to 100,000 beds readying to create quarantine anywhere from one track to a planetarium and a natural park facilities. A new 1,000-bed hospital Covid-19 was built from scratch within two weeks and started last week. It sent to the local health authorities and notices to 75,000 doctors in the private sector to be ready for a two-week mandatory virus duty, extremely tired and health workers in the public sector overworked to rest. Viruses aggressive disinfectants and research deceleration contacts helped slow doubling rate of virus cases in Mumbai. In Dharavi slum cluster, the pace is now 20 days instead of three in April. While there are enough beds for non-critical patients and asymptomatic, Shatabdi Hospital Oswal is the real crisis is said in beds, ventilators and oxygen stations for patients in critical condition. Patients breathe, gasping, and sometimes could not be saved, he said, citing the hospital doctor earlier government. “The health care system will be brought soon in a very difficult situation when they make a choice between providing the offer and simply say, ‘I’m sorry, we can not do anything for you,'” said Vivekanand Jha executive director of George Global Health Institute in India. For doctors and nurses on the front mounting challenges. There are cases where members have just left the patient in the stations and undress afraid it might catch the virus, according to Ahmed, a doctor at King Edward Memorial Hospital. “It took health nurses around the clock care for these patients,” he said. “We do not know their names or history, but they have to start their treatment.” The sword above his head Some health workers, said the media coverage was demoralizing the poor conditions in state hospitals as they worked tirelessly for weeks. Gaikar, the nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital, did not stay with his nine year old daughter and husband for two months. Neither she has she visits his elderly parents for fear of infecting. “It ‘a very difficult battle, how your life is at stake,” said Gaikar. “It ‘s always the sword hanging over your head. I will test positive when my swab is taken after the service?” -With the help of PR Sanjai and Bijou George. copyright Image of Dhiraj Singh Bloomberg / Getty Images
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