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Patients forced to run from hospital to hospital in India as COVID-19 hits healthcare

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (EFE/EPA).- On a scorching summer day, Samarth Thapa was forced to drive around for an entire day with his ailing mother in the frantic hunt for a sickbed from one Delhi hospital to another after she developed clear Covid-19 symptoms.He brought her home in the evening since the government-run as well as private hospitals across the Indian capital, a city of nearly 19 million residents, denied her critical care and refused admission on one or the other pretext.(Camera: HARSIH TYAGI/RAJAT GUPTA).FOOTAGE SHOWS HEALTH AUTHORITIES CARRYING A COFFIN WITH THE BODY OF A COVID-19 PATIENT; COVID-19 TESTING CENTERS; A QUARANTINE FACILITY FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS IN NEW DELHI.

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