Bihar hospital staff member rides motorbike through waterlogged corridor to reach patient after heavy rains

With heavy rains in the wake of Cyclone Yaas in Bihar, several key hospitals and medical centers have reported heavy waterlogging. Footage from one such hospital in Katihar has gone viral where a member of hospital staff can be seen cycling down the hallway of the building to reach a patient through the waterlogged hallways as the Patient beds were half submerged in water after relentless rains last week.

The footage was captured by the ANI news agency at Sadar Hospital in Katihar, where all departments, as well as the OPD, were inundated. Despite the difficulties posed by the significant congestion, the hospital staff nevertheless continue to provide as much help and assistance to the patients.

Sadar Hospital in Katihar is not the only hospital in Bihar to have been flooded. In an overwhelmed health system in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19, the premises of Bihar’s oldest hospital, Darbhanga Medical College & Hospital (DMCH), were seen in a deplorable state with areas flooded and polluted and pigs roaming the campus. Former MP Pappu Yadav tweeted an image of a waterlogged hospital in Darbhanga, Bihar, calling it a “floating hospital”.