Covid Patients Get Oxygen In Chairs As Maharashtra Hospital Out Of Beds

Osmanabad district reported 681 new cases and seven deaths in the last 24 hours - adding to Maharashtra's new record of over 63,000 infections on Sunday.

Slouched in wheelchairs, barely able to keep their eyes open, COVID-19 patients at the district hospital in Maharashtra's Osmanabad get their oxygen fix while more are wheeled in. Even at barely a minute long, the video clip tells a horror story of what happens when the healthcare system of small-town India gets overwhelmed with more patients than it had ever prepared for. The Osmanabad district hospital appears to have run out of beds in the cellphone clips recorded by witnesses and so patients are made to sit on chairs as a handful of nurses and doctors do their best to help as many people as possible. The district, in the southeastern corner of the vast state, reported 681 new cases and seven deaths in the last 24 hours - adding to Maharashtra's new record of over 63,000 infections on Sunday. With more than 4,300 active cases, Osmanabad was among the districts flagged on Sunday for issues with its medical oxygen supply along with Pune, Palghar, and Bhandara by teams of experts sent by the central government to audit some of the worst-hit states.