: Harsh Mander: How I (barely) survived Covid-19 in a general ward of a public hospital #IndiaNEWS As we enter the third year of the pandemic, there is sobering admission by scientists that humankind

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Harsh Mander: How I (barely) survived Covid-19 in a general ward of a public hospital #IndiaNEWS
As we enter the third year of the pandemic, there is sobering admission by scientists that humankind will have to learn to continue to live with Covid-19 for the foreseeable future. I write here at this milestone an account about my own personal experience in a general ward of a leading public hospital with the coronavirus infection that was one of the most difficult periods of my life. I write with some hesitation and this is something that I have struggled to do for this past year. The monumental scale of suffering of literally millions of my countrywomen and men makes my own experience inconsequential by comparison. But I still do so write, only as a direct witness to the disgraceful collapse of even elementary care and everyday humanism that I encountered in the general ward of what is widely considered the finest public hospital in the country.I had expected to catch the Covid-19 contagion much earlier. The eruption of mass hunger into which homeless people and urban poor people, in general, had been thrust overnight compelled me to descent to the streets of the city I live in, Delhi, from the second day of the first lockdown. I knew, from two...Read more

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