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Apr 29, 2021, 7 tweets

Covid: Doctors left to comfort dying coronavirus patients in India as they feel 'helpless'
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‘I at least try to sit at their bedside, making it a little easier for them to pass away with someone next to them.’

Doctor U. H. Faisal says on most days she sits by the bed of her dying patients to comfort them
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‘Please help us. We are seriously helpless. We want to save our public. We cannot see our people dying.’

Dr Manish Jangra feels powerless as he watches people die inside and outside his hospital in Delhi
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Dr Krishan Rajbhar, who works in Delhi, said the Covid situation is ‘causing a lot of trouble, a lot of mental torture to us’, as he begged Indian authorities to help
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‘There is death everywhere, we are trying our best, but it is not enough… far from enough.’

Dr Siddarth Tara described the scene around him in hospital as ‘heartbreaking’
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‘These numbers are humans, people with fathers, sons, mothers, anxiously waiting outside our wards.’

Dr Prakamya Singhal has warned India is ‘at the cusp of the worst crisis that this country has ever faced’
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‘I'm appalled by what is going on around me and as a citizen of the country, I'm honestly hopeless.’

Dr Parikha Rampal said the Covid situation in India is ‘tragic’ and that people there are ‘filled with grief’
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