Mint.He hears his colleagues taking ill every day, some of them seriously so. Much-in-demand e-commerce companies saw a number of their delivery personnel call in sick last week or two, forcing a round of fresh recruitments.Earlier this month, the rush of patients in need of a hospital bed or oxygen apparatus at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital prompted the management to put up beds in the elevator lobby of the premier hospital.
The makeshift beds soon filled up but patient registrations would not stop. Doctors on covid-duty, some of whom had beaten back the virus, felt “overwhelmed, extremely helpless and angry", said a senior doctor of his younger colleagues.These are words not expected from doctors.As covid-19 rampages across India in the.