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‘It’s Like a War’: Inside an India Hospital Desperate for Oxygen

Families drive hundreds of kilometers to find beds, oxygen
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WATCH: An explosive outbreak of Covid-19 in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world. Bloomberg's Ruth Pollard went to a 1,000 bed private hospital in New Delhi to talk with the doctors fighting on the frontlines.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Ruth Pollard and Sudhi Ranjan Sen

April 27, 2021 at 10:28 PM EDT

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April 28, 2021 at 1:23 AM EDT

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At his crowded emergency room in central Delhi, Ali Raza can’t focus much on when the next delivery of oxygen will arrive -- 12 of his 20 doctors are down with Covid-19, and the patients just keep coming.

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