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Last doctor standing: Pandemic pushes JLNMC hospital in Bhagalpur to brink

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BHAGALPUR, BIHAR : Guards armed with rifles escort Dr. Kumar Gaurav as he makes the rounds at his hospital on the banks of the Ganges River.The guards are there to protect him from the relatives of patients, including those suffering from COVID-19.

The relatives keep barging into the wards, even the ICU, to stroke and feed their loved ones, often without wearing even the flimsiest of masks as barriers against the novel coronavirus."If we stop them, they get angry," he says. "They want to give homemade meals to their patients, and some even want to massage their patients.

And they are taking the infections from our ICUs to the other people in the society."He stops to tell the wife of a patient in the ICU she must leave.

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