BANGALORE/NEW DELHI – In Rajkot, a small town in Gujarat, a local newspaper devoted eight of its 20 pages to the obituaries of 285 people who died of Covid-19 last week.
“Three of them were my patients,” said Dr Vivek Jivani, an intensive care specialist in a private hospital in Rajkot, one of the worst affected towns in the pandemic’s second wave. To endure the powerlessness and anxiety, he makes time for a 10-minute prayer every morning.
“People are dying because of circumstances I cannot control, but still, every time a patient dies on my watch, I tell myself, try harder for the next person,” said Dr Jivani, 30, during his so-called lunch break when he was responding to miss…
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