SECOND WAVE OF VIRUS LEFT INDIA’S HOSPITALS IN TROUBLE AS SHOTS RUN LOW.

India is facing a health crisis because of the second wave of the virus which is hitting high records. Hospitals around the country are facing a huge shortage of care beds and intensive drugs. From the wealthiest state Maharashtra to the most populated state Utter Pradesh there has been a shortage of hospital care beds and immunization centers which results in turning away people as they are running out of vaccines.

Maharashtra’s health minister Rajesh Tope has announced a strict weekend lockdown in order to control the situation. Mumbai has currently used up all but 3% of its intensive care hospital beds. Mr. Rajesh Tope has warned the state that they have three days’ worth of shots in stock and vaccination centers across the state are being forced to close down. Chief minister Punjab said that the Punjab’s vaccine will last another five days, urging the government to increase the supply.

New Delhi -the capital of the country is also facing a lot of troubles due to the virus. At Sir Ganga Ram hospital which is one the city’s top institutions, 37 doctors are infected with covid-19.

Land of kings Rajasthan has also insufficient doses which may lead to adjournment of vaccination drive in some parts of the state. The country sent out more than 64 million shots between mid-January and March, 10.5 million as grants or aid and another 18 million for the WHO-led Covax initiative.

There has been reports of shortages of Remdesivir, a broad spectrum anti-viral medication used to cure covid-19. Not only this but many hospitals had run out of ICU and oxygen beds as well.

But the positive thing is that ‘’we know what are the warning signs are, and we are not experimenting with patients’’ as said by Bajaj.

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