Bangladesh's already strained health care system is buckling under the ferocity of the country's third, and by far deadliest, wave of coronavirus infections
A COVID-19 patient on life support in the intensive care unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 5, 2021. Bangladesh’s already strained health care system is buckling under the ferocity of the country’s third, and by far deadliest, wave of coronavirus infections, but the government is lifting much of its lockdown.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nasrin Jahan woke up gasping for air. Her daughter held her in the back of a rickshaw as they motored to a nearby clinic, where she was hooked up with an oxygen cylinder. From there, an ambulance took her to one hospital, then another, looking for a bed.
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