India has been extremely hard-hit in recent days by a new wave of infections of a new COVID-19 variant, leaving their healthcare system short of just about everything, from oxygen to beds and syringes.
India so far has seen a little more than 150,000 deaths due to the novel coronavirus, but that could change rapidly now. Some models are projecting that, within a month's time, the total death toll could be around 500,000 due to the new strain.
"Right now there are no beds, no oxygen. Everything else is secondary. The infrastructure is crumbling," commented a virologist from Ashoka University, according to the Daily Wire.
Another doctor, working in New Delhi, stated:
"We do not have that many oxygen points. Whatever oxygen points are there, they’re full. Patients are coming in with their own oxygen cylinders or without oxygen. We want to help them but there are not enough beds and not enough oxygen points even to supply them oxygen if it is there.
"All our telephone lines are jammed. People are continuously calling the helpline. There is a big rush outside the hospital: there are ambulances parked, patients wanting to get deboarded, but the problem is, there is no space.
"We try to mobilise, we try to discharge patients who become stable as early as possible so that we can increase the turnaround, but things are difficult right now."
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