Oxygen being administered to a coronavirus patient in Bihar. Image for representation. | PTI While I reported that fewer people were going to Patna’s top COVID hospitals, I also needed to understand the situation in rural Bihar. Who was treating the patients in villages?To investigate this, Sajid and I travelled together to Arrah (Bhojpur) district on May 8, 2020. In various blocks, clinics were closed, leaving patients to fend for themselves. Abandoned by the system, patients were left in the c...
Covid dispatches: An account of how quacks ‘treated’ patients in absence of doctors in rural Bihar
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