By Jeffrey Gettleman, Emily Schmall, Suhasini Raj and Hari Kumar NEW DELHI: At 9:45 p.m., alarms blared across the intensive care unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throatsContinue Reading

A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s already creaky health infrastructure, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen, while critical drugs are being sold on a thriving black market. Social media platforms have been flooded with SOS messages from people pleading for oxygen cylinders and hospital admissionsContinue Reading