Grief. Sense of loss. Helplessness. And a State that terribly failed its people. A month of documenting the second wave of #COVID19 for @newslaundry. Thread on stories filed:
How the death of journo Vinay Srivastava exposed healthcare facility in Lucknow
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How the death of journo Vinay Srivastava exposed healthcare facility in Lucknow
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April 17: When migrant workers began to head back home soon after the announcement of weekend lockdown in Delhi.
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Ground report on Covid preparedness of four private hospitals in Noida that were granted permission for critical care facilities in June 2020.
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When BJP MP from East Delhi, Gautam Gambhir, decided to distribute Fabiflu at his discretion, we went around checking at neighbouring pharmacies and hospitals only to know that the medicine was not available anywhere. Doesn't this amount to hoarding?
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'We just want Oxygen. If you can help us, just bring Oxygen for us', pleaded a doctor posted at a private hospital in Rohini. When hospitals in north Delhi put out posters informing patients of acute Oxygen shortage.
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April 28: Queuing for hours outside the crematoria, waiting to perform the last rites. Ground report from two crematoriums in West Delhi where the waiting time averaged over five hours.
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As SOS messages from various hospitals in Delhi continued to make it on social media, Newslaundry spoke with Narin Sehgal, director of Sehgal Neo Hospital on Oxygen shortage. "There should have been better planning," he said.
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May 4: In Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, 44 teachers on duty during the panchayat poll have died of Covid. Their families point at the lack of social distancing protocols followed during the poll conducted on April 15. Report with @shivangi441
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May 6: Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres in Gorakhpur are overwhelmed as the catastrophic second wave of the pandemic rages in Uttar Pradesh.
It takes hours to get an RTPCR test done and there are no vaccines for the 18-45 age group.
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It takes hours to get an RTPCR test done and there are no vaccines for the 18-45 age group.
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May 10: At Gorakhpur's District Hospital where stretchers were converted into beds after patients from neighbouring villages started coming in.
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May 11: Following up on SOS messages put out on Twitter, Newslaundry visited two private hospitals in Gorakhpur as well as the BRD Medical College, and found that they were running out of Oxygen and even essential medicines. Report with @shivangi441
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At #Varanasi's Harishchandra Ghat in Uttar Pradesh, #cremation workers continue to demand exorbitant sums for conducting funeral rites despite the local administration having capped the rates.
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Rajkumar Yadav, newly elected pradhan of Jayapur, the Uttar Pradesh village adopted by prime minister Narendra Modi in 2014, says at least 10 of his fellow villagers have died from Covid in recent weeks but none have been counted officially.
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