Coronavirus: In India, overworked medical students are at the front lines of the crisis

Since the beginning of the week, Dr Siddharth Tara, a postgraduate medical student at New Delhi’s government-run Hindu Rao Hospital, has had a fever and persistent headache.He took a Covid-19 test, but the results have been delayed as India’s health system implodes.His hospital, overburdened and understaffed, wants him to keep working until the testing laboratory confirms he has Covid-19.Indian doctors beg for supplies as Covid-19 claims 117 lives an hourIn the last 24 hours, India recorded 360…

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