This footage was filmed and produced 25 April 2021.
India’s daily test positivity rate has increased in the second wave of COVID-19, leading to a huge increase in the number of cases reported every day. India has reported the highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in the world consistently over the last five days, recording a higher number each day.
In Patna, Bihar hospitals are so overcrowded that people wait by the gates for days, some of them die there. It happens so fast and in such huge numbers, that bodies have to be burned by residents themselves.
Interview: ADYITA KUMAR, local citizen, son of died Deepak Lal
"When he tested positive, my family rushed to the nearby hospital for getting him admitted. But they were refused at that place. Then they moved to the PMCH, on... again there was a very heavy rush at PMCH, so they were refused at that place again. And then after somehow they managed to get admitted at NMCH, while some relatives helped. But there was hardly any help that was given by the doctors and the medical team. They were just not attending anyone. All the other people (peoples) were dying at the gate itself."