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Delhi's popular autorickshaws become COVID-19 ambulances

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NEW DELHI It's not the most conventional way to get to hospital, but with Delhi running short of ambulances, authorities have turned some of the city's ubiquitous three-wheeled autorickshaws into makeshift ambulances to ferry COVID-19 patients.Actual ambulances are hard to come by as a devastating surge in cases overwhelms the healthcare system.

Families have had to make their own arrangements including paying exorbitant amounts to private ambulance operators to take the sick to hospital.The Delhi government, in association with a non-profit organization, has kitted out more than a dozen autorickshaws with hand sanitizers and face masks, while oxygen cylinders are provided on a need basis.

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