Hello, I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service it's like to report on the distressing numbers of deaths,

and doctors discuss caring on the front line

when there are essential shortages. What we are seeing is already a disaster I

can't even imagine what can be worse than this. You know no oxygen to breathe I mean

when it be ever population of 1.3 billion, but the latest coronavirus numbers can be hard to comprehend.

In the last week alone, over 2 million people have been infected with coronavirus, and the numbers

of deaths are so high that crematoriums and graveyards are struggling to cope.

Make shift funeral fires, they are appearing, while in some places wood for those is starting

to become in short supply. We're also hearing about official daily

deaths exceeding 3,000 yet the exact numbers they're believed to be far higher.

Countries are sending emergency medical equipment and supplies as the health care system is overwhelmed.

But before we hear from two doctors trying to deal with that

we were sent from people in India sharing their experiences.

I'm the Rana Singh in New Delhi. I have lost some very close friends and fathers and mothers of close friends.

A nine-year-old son of a friend, a grandfather of a friend.

Most of these people have passed away,

not because of COVID, but because of a complication arising

out of breathlessness, out of a lack of resource oxygen, a lack of hospitalization and hospital beds in time.

These people could have been saved.

These people would be alive today if the government could have set up a nationwide or even

statewide health line wherein we could call and get support for these emergency resources required.

I would go crazy if I didn't have this situation of being a social worker, people turning and looking at me for help for their family members and friends.

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