Covid-19 patients from low, middle income can’t afford beds in private hospitals

The government should coordinate with private hospitals to give services to the general public as state-run hospitals cannot cope with rising number of cases, doctors say.

A week ago, Gautam, whose name we are not sharing at his request, had a continuous dry cough accompanied by fever fatigue, three classic symptoms of Covid-19. Just a few days before he got sick, his wife had had similar symptoms. The couple’s one-year-old son was also unwell.