Doctors of Indian descent try to help loved ones caught in COVID crisis far away

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'For a lot of people, it's hard to really comprehend how devastating this virus can be until it enters your own home.'

There are reported more than 350,000 new cases a day and the death toll is surging. Experts say the overwhelming surge may be fueled by a “double-mutant” variant detected in the country.last week, Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a physician in Rochester, Minnesota, tweeted about how he and other doctors of Indian descent felt"both hopeless [and] determined" to help their families and close friends on the other side of the world.

"We have been inundated with phone calls for help in terms of ... securing hospital beds for people or getting oxygen for people or basically providing counseling and care for people who are ill," Rajkumar told ABC News."This has been going on non-stop for the whole of last week."MORE: A 'complete collapse' of preventive health: How India's 2nd COVID wave exploded

"For a lot of people, it's hard to really comprehend how devastating this virus can be until it enters your own home," Kathuria said."And it's incredibly devastating that this is how it entered into my home, through another country, which I would have never anticipated." Kathuria's uncle has not been able to get a ventilator given the short supply, and Kathuria said that navigating the hospital system has been difficult."It's challenging, they have a they have a shortage of medications, they have a shortage of everything. They have a shortage of oxygen, they have a shortage of equipment, so for me as a physician in America, to try to understand what's available there in a constantly changing environment," Kathuria said.

"Within three weeks, all that evolved, and I must say, everyone I talked [to] and people I don't even know, they just reached out and they helped," Tewari said."And so that that was one of the most rewarding things that, to get to know that how people who don't even know you want to help when they see suffering.", a nonprofit working to help respond to the virus in the India.

 

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PM Modi has failed his country, and needs to resign

There are many refrigerators container filled with bodies in New York.

That country treats it poor like crap. It's a awesome country people and the land. They need to install sewers and water treatment plants! Every one in that country should have sewers and clean water to drink! Shame Shame Shame!

I have gotten generics made in India, so we know they have the ability to do this, with the 'recipe' and equipment needed. This is Americas chance to take the lead in helping countries that need help.

He need to wake up.

This is what happened to everybody but that woman

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