{"id":18791,"date":"2020-05-29T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/india-mumbai-hospitals-overwhelmed-coronavirus-cases"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:00:47","slug":"patients-share-beds-as-coronavirus-cases-overwhelm-mumbais-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18791","title":{"rendered":"Patients share beds as coronavirus cases overwhelm Mumbai\u2019s hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s pandemic continues, in some areas the healthcare system is close to collapse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Mumbai\u2019s Sion hospital emergency ward there are two people to a bed. Patients, many with coronavirus symptoms and strapped two to a single oxygen tank, were captured lying almost on top of each other, top-to-toe on shared stretchers or just lying on the floor, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-asia-india-52818777\/india-coronavirus-patients-share-beds-in-overrun-mumbai-hospital\">footage shared on social media<\/a> in India this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai, a city of more than 20 million people, is weeks into the pandemic, but with new cases showing no sign of slowing down the city\u2019s already weak healthcare system appears to be on the brink of collapse. State hospitals such as Sion, overcrowded in normal times, are overrun. With frontline doctors and nurses falling sick with the virus in their droves, it is also leading to a shortage of medical staff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/india-mumbai-hospitals-overwhelmed-coronavirus-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India\u2019s pandemic continues, in some areas the healthcare system is close to collapseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn Mumbai\u2019s Sion hospital emergency ward there are two people to a bed. Patients, many with coronavirus s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,841,62,914,454,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hospitals","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-mumbai","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}