India's medical 'warriors' risk their lives in COVID catastrophe

Delhi health care workers share harrowing tales of death and tragedy

20210513 Medical staff India Delhi Holy Family Hospital

The Holy Family hospital ICU in New Delhi. A nurse in her 30s with a small baby at home feels overwhelmed: "We are working in risk, but for what? Only to witness more deaths." © Getty Images

KAISAR ANDRABI, Contributing writer

NEW DELHI -- Shurti sat in a chair outside the COVID-19 ward at New Delhi's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, her face haggard and lifeless.

"We are short on resources like oxygen. Had we been prepared for this, perhaps a lot of lives would have been saved and the hospital staff would not have been stretched thin like it is now," she said.

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