India: How COVID disaster dents Narendra Modi's well-crafted image | DW | 10.05.2021

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As an intense second COVID19 wave grips India, with images of bodies burning in overwhelmed crematoriums going viral, PM Narendra Modi's image has been dented, experts say. DW's dharvi_vaid reports from New Delhi.

India has added hundreds of thousands of cases in recent days, and the total death toll has surpassed 220,000. Cities are running out of space to bury or cremate the dead.COVID sufferers seek medical support at temples

An elderly woman suffering from breathing difficulties due to COVID-19 waits to receive free supplemental oxygen outside a Sikh temple on the outskirts of Delhi in Ghaziabad. Many who are struggling for breath due to COVID-19 have flocked to the temple, hoping to secure some of its limited oxygen supplies.COVID patients turn to informal health services

Hospitals in Delhi and across the country are turning away patients after running out of medical oxygen and beds. Many have put out urgent notices saying they can't cope with the rush of patients. The Sikh temple in Ghaziabad has come to resemble the emergency ward of a hospital. People all across Delhi are seeking and creating makeshift health care spaces.A health care worker tests blood oxygen levels of a COVID patient inside an ambulance in the eastern city of Kolkata.

The unfolding crisis is most noticeable in India's overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums. Burial grounds in the capital New Delhi are running out of space. In other cities, glowing funeral pyres light up the night sky."The virus is swallowing our city's people like a monster,'' said Mamtesh Sharma, an official at Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat crematorium in the central city of Bhopal.

"People are greatly disappointed. The common man is unable to understand this sudden change in attitude. When there is a need to take a lot of initiative he is not at the forefront," Sanjay Kumar, professor at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies , told DW.has dented Modi's image, which can have political repercussions for the prime minister and his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party .

 

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