Pandemic can bring out unique stories of human bonding. This Indian Express report is one such instance.

One moment they were strangers, none of whom knew of the existence of the others. The next moment they were united in the most intimate way, connected by tubes to the same well of life from which they drew.

Parvati Devi, Om Dutt Sharma, and Deepak lay outside GTB Hospital on Friday afternoon, sharing a single cylinder of oxygen, as the Capital fought a shortage that has increased manifold the risk to serious patients of Covid-19 and driven hospitals to send daily, repeated pleas to the government for help.

On Friday, members of the three families stood around their patients, periodically adjusting the connecting pipes and oxygen masks, as they waited to be admitted to the hospital’s Covid block.


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