Covid-19 pandemic bares untapped home healthcare services in India

The shortage is magnified in clinicians, nurses and doctors focused on general and internal medicine, said Vishal Bali Founder, Nightingale

In Delhi’s Greater Kailash, as her twin sister’s condition worsened on several fronts, in Alka Sahni’s mind, panic began to set in. What if her sister passed away without treatment ? Worse, what if she suffered ? What if there was something happening due to the virus in her body that was not visible on the outside ? After she worked herself up, Sahni put her sister in their car and started driving to the closest hospital to admit her before she took a turn for the worse. 

In Bengaluru, Professor Neelkanth Vaidya drove around the city for almost three hours