Scenes Of Despair As Covid Patients' Families Scramble For Beds In Indore

Indore, which has been reporting the highest number of cases in the state, added 912 cases to it's infection tally in the last 24 hours. There are more than 7,000 active patients in the city.

Ambulances with patients lining up outside hospitals, desperate relatives running from pillar to post in search for a bed were among the scenes of despair witnessed in Indore as the medical services in the city have been struggling to cope with the sharp surge in the number of COVID-19 cases. "We need a bed. It's an emergency. They say there are ten other emergencies. There is one person at the counter. There should be five people to man the counter given that this is a pandemic situation. One person is handling 50 patients. It is taking half an hour to get a doctor. They are asking for Aadhaar card and so many other documents, not treating my father," said the relative of a patient. Another patient's relatives were seen pleading for oxygen for him. His wife was screaming for help even as the patient breathed his last outside the hospital. The relatives alleged that they waited for hours but the hospital was busy doing the formalities.