Prognosis
Bodies Left on Hospital Beds as Virus Overwhelms Mumbai
- Mumbai has more than a fifth of India’s virus cases and deaths
- Patients asked to sleep on floor, share oxygen stations
Hospital staff dressed in protective gear carry empty stretchers from a morgue towards a hospital in Mumbai, India, on May 29.
Photographer: Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo
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Hospital wards with corpses left unattended in hallways. Patients asked to sleep on the floor until beds open up. A woman with brain damage who died because she was refused medical help until her family could prove she was virus-free.