At Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), one of India's largest COVID-only facilities with more than 1,500 beds, a stream of ambulances ferried patients to the overflowing casualty ward on Thursday. From an initial 54 beds, the hospital now has over 300 for Covid-19 patients in critical condition. Unrelated patients share beds, while bodies of the recently deceased lie outside the ward before being taken to the mortuary. "Today we have 158 admissions in Lok Nayak alone," Kumar said. Outside the hospital's mortuary, weeping relatives gathered in the hot sun to wait for the bodies of loved ones to be released.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 15, 2021 12:33 UTC