This is what india's horrifying second

Wave looks like a crematorium that can't keep up with the bodies and workers who don't even have time to feed themselves or a hindu priest performing last rites for the deceased

He says it's always been a difficult job but right now

It's unbearable india's outbreak is setting global

Records every day another four hundred thousand

People test positive and more than three thousand died most days in new delhi the temperature

Is well above 100 degrees fahrenheit the air is thick

With smoke ash and a smell that can't be washed

Away from him me and also runs an ngo that arranges funerals for unclaimed bodies he says a lot of deaths aren't being counted number one number two i'll become seven chalice dead body the crematoriums are so overrun because the health care system

Has collapsed there's a shortage of beds

Oxygen and medical supplies

We can't really send them to other

Hospitals because there are no other

Hospitals taking them in i really don't know what

To say because we have to manage the emergency care we have to manage the patients like ward and icu everything is being done in the emergency department

So we have uh study for more than 10

Years and still we are so helpless we

Can't help anything because we can't

Help anyone it was only a few months ago that

India's health minister claimed victory

Over the coronavirus massive gatherings

Like the hindu kumila pilgrimage

And even election rallies organized by

The prime minister were allowed to go

Ahead they became super spreader events

They knew this was coming it was not

That they did not have an idea they knew

This was coming why didn't we do anything we were just concerned about the rallies and we're

Just concerned about the kum mela and

Everything resources are so stretched that some

Hospitals are asking patients to bring their own supplies to cope with the shortages but he can't find a doctor to treat his brother-in-law whose oxygen levels are plummetingthe police arrived

Foreign the health system here is so overloaded that it's now luck more than medicine that's deciding who

Lives and who dies

The guy whom 41 years my big brother

We could have saved him

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