‘They knew we weren’t giving oxygen’: a Delhi doctor’s week of horror

Dr Chahat Verma saw five patients die in a day as India's Covid crisis overwhelms hospitals

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During the past week, when oxygen was periodically running out at Ganga Ram hospital, one thing Dr Chahat Verma found unbearable was the look on the faces of patients when the oxygen saturation levels of another patient in the ward plunged.

They'd lie there, watching the patient gasping, unable to breathe, and they knew we weren't giving oxygen because there wasn't any. The look in their eyes was one of pure terror. They knew it could be their turn next," she said.