BEYOND BORDERS
In June, while the Covid-19 pandemic was at its peak in the Indian capital Delhi, a young YouTube-based reporter stationed himself outside a hospital and recorded the stories of frustration, panic and anguish as distraught relatives tried to find treatment for their loved ones within an all-but-collapsed medical system.1
One man recounted how, after getting no information, he had asked a guard to take a phone in to his father within a hospital only to have the guard return to inform him that he had died.
Another man was waiting for the police to turn up. He had heard nothing from or about his father from hospital staff for six agonizing days, until finally being told that his father was missing. ‘I have no idea where he is. Is he even alive or not? Tell us something, it has been six days.’
Yet another began calmly enough. His father, who had been in a government hospital, had not even had access to oxygen and had asked his son
