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KOMPAS.com – India is under the grip of a second wave of deadly Covid-19.

India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, was among the worst affected by the second wave in the country.

Nonetheless, the authorities insist that the situation is under control.

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A resident named Niranjan Pal Singh (58), died on Friday (16/4/2021), in an ambulance while being taken from one hospital to another.

They have been turned away by four hospitals for lack of beds.

“It was a heartbreaking day for me,” Niranjan’s son Kanwal Jeet Singh was quoted as saying. BBC, Tuesday (20/4/2021).

“I believe that if he receives treatment in a timely manner, he will be alive. But no one helps us, the police, the health authorities or the government,” he continued.

With a population of 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state.

If it were a separate country, Uttar Pradesh would probably be the fifth largest country in the world, just behind China, India, the US and Indonesia.

Thousands of new infections are reported every day putting the state’s health infrastructure in the spotlight.

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Among the infected patients were Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, several of his cabinet colleagues, dozens of government officials, hundreds of doctors, nurses and other health workers.

Videos shared by local journalists in Kanpur show a sick man lying on the ground in the parking lot of the state-run Lala Lajpat Rai hospital.

At the same location, an old man sits on a hospital bench.

Both have tested positive for Covid-19, but the hospital does not have a bed to accommodate them.

Outside the government-run Kanshiram hospital, a young woman cried as she said that two hospitals refused to admit her sick mother.

“They say they’ve run out of beds. If you don’t have a bed, put him on the floor, but at least give him treatment. There are many patients like my mother,” said the woman.

“The Chief Minister said there were enough beds, please show them where they were. Please treat my mother,” he continued.

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Emergency situation

The situation in the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, is just as dire.

A patient named Sushil Kumar Srivastava can be seen sitting in his car with an oxygen cylinder while his desperate family carried him from one hospital to another.

By the time they found a bed for him, it was too late.

Meanwhile, retired judge Ramesh Chandra’s handwriting for help after authorities failed to bring his wife to hospital went viral on social media.

“My wife and I are both positive corona virus. Since yesterday morning, I have called the government assistance telephone number at least 50 times, but no one has come to deliver medicine or take us to the hospital, “he wrote.

“Due to administrative inaction, my wife died this morning,” he said.

Stories of deaths and families destroyed due to Covid-19 are widely spread as cases of infection continue to increase on Sunday (19/4/2021).

The state has 30,596 new cases, the highest ever reported.

Opposition activists and politicians accuse the state of keeping its cases and death toll low by not doing much testing.

Indian media also questioned government data due to discrepancies between the official numbers of deaths and bodies at crematoriums in Lucknow and Varanasi.

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