{"id":31668,"date":"2021-05-02T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/02\/they-knew-we-werent-giving-oxygen-a-delhi-doctors-week-of-horror"},"modified":"2021-05-02T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T11:38:18","slug":"they-knew-we-werent-giving-oxygen-a-delhi-doctors-week-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31668","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They knew we weren\u2019t giving oxygen\u2019: a Delhi doctor\u2019s week of horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chahat Verma saw five patients die in a day as India\u2019s Covid crisis overwhelms hospitals<\/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>During the past week, when oxygen was periodically running out at Ganga Ram hospital, one thing Dr Chahat Verma found unbearable was the look on the faces of patients when the oxygen saturation levels of another patient in the ward plunged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019d lie there, watching the patient gasping, unable to breathe, and they knew we weren\u2019t giving oxygen because there wasn\u2019t any. The look in their eyes was one of pure terror. They knew it could be their turn next,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/02\/they-knew-we-werent-giving-oxygen-a-delhi-doctors-week-of-horror\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chahat Verma saw five patients die in a day as India\u2019s Covid crisis overwhelms hospitalsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDuring the past week, when oxygen was periodically running out at Ganga Ram hospital, one thing Dr Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[1066,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31669,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions\/31669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}