Ambulances lining up with patients, 12-hour shifts, limited resources and deteriorating mental health are some of the many challenges Dr Alisha Akhani has been dealing with fresh out of her MBBS course
For Dr. Alisha Akhani, a 22-year-old intern, handling the second wave of the pandemic has been a completely new experience
A twenty-year-old woman who was five months pregnant was rushed to Shree Krishna Hospital in Gujarat’s Anand district in the last week of April. She tested positive for Covid-19 and, according to the doctors, was a high-risk patient. With her oxygen levels constantly dipping, doctors immediately sedated her and put her on the ventilator. The mother-to-be was lying on the bed with tubes in her mouth and IV lines running from her wrists. Since her condition was still deteriorating, the doctors had to deliver the baby through C-section. The baby didn’t survive but the doctors kept battling to save the mother.