In parts of India, everyone knows someone who's in isolation or worse.

Our close families are my cousins, friends, office friends.

Anyone you talk to, at least one or two of the people in their network or immediate family is affected and they are home isolated or searching for hospital.

Ankit Bhutani can hear the ambulances outside his apartment building near Delhi,

an apartment building by the way with its own online COVID dashboard.

I could see in the last three days there were three deaths at least.

Ankit's father got sick with the virus back in March.

After five days in the ICU, he was sent home.

But he never fully recovered and weeks later took a turn for the worse.

The situation was totally different by that time.

And hospitals were already flooded and that one of the time, the whole kind of panic crept in.

There was no ICU space for Ankit's dad, only in ER bed where they had too big for him to get basic care.

So that period was very, very tough.

Ankit's wife, Garima.

He was unconscious. He had bed source.

He was a diabetes patient and his sugar needed to be monitored and he needed those medicines.

The family spent two sleepless nights calling the overwhelmed ER every hour to ask them to check his father's insulin.

At the same time, they were desperately searching for another hospital with ICU space.

And they finally found one on April 15th.

Of course, his body and the infection and all that took a toll on his body and he was quite weak.

So the next hospital which took us in, he could live only one day there and on 16th, he passed on.

Prady Bhutani, a 71 year old retired professor and school principal, now among the hundreds of thousands dead in India.

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