The number of corona patients in the country is increasing day by day. The rapid growth of covid cases has become a cause for concern and over the last 10 days, more than 1 lakh corona patients have been found in the country every day. The number of new coronavirus cases in India hit a record daily high with 2,00,739 infections in the last 24 hours pushing the total tally of cases to 1,40,74,564, while the active cases are 14,71,877, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
Maharashtra is one the worst affected state hit by the pandemic. State government has even announced a 15 day lockdown to curb the spread of the disease. Despite the lockdown and restriction in place, it seems to have no effect in number of rising cases. Amid the surge, a shocking news has come from Chandrapur. One can only guess at how serious the situation has become.
A young man from Chandrapur who has been running around trying to get medical help for his ailing father in various hospitals in Maharashtra and Telangana. "Give him a hospital bed, or just kill him with an injection," said Sagar Kishore Naharshetivar. In a little more than 24 hours the tried get help from two states.
Sagar had taken his father to Chandrapur, 850 km from Mumbai.However, due to the increasing number of patients, health services are becoming inadequate here. As a result, the hospital service were closed for 24 hours.
Sagar first went to a hospital in Warora in Chandrapur but could not find a bed there. He later went to several private hospitals. There was no beds left there either.
At 1.30 in the night, they went to Telangana. "We reached Telangana around 3 am. But there were no beds there either. Then we came back in the morning. We have been waiting here since," he said, pointing to the ambulance with its rudimentary facilities.
After so many hours, his father's oxygen is now running out, he said. "Either you make a bed available for him, or you kill him with an injection. I cannot take him home like this and you have no beds available".
Over 24 hours on Monday, Chandrapur reported 850 fresh cases of Covid. Six persons have died. Altogether, there are 6,953 active cases.