"You Are Not A Superhero...": Tearful Mumbai Doctor's Appeal To Mask Up

Struggling to contain herself, to wipe away her tears, Dr Gilada lists three steps every single person - man, woman or child - must take to fight the Covid pandemic

"We are helpless... never seen such a situation before... people are panicking..." - the desperate words of an overworked and traumatised Mumbai doctor driven to tears as an avalanche of Covid-positive patients threatens to overrun the medical infrastructure in one of the world's biggest cities An appeal by Dr Trupti Gilada, an infectious diseases specialist from Mumbai, was widely shared on Tuesday - as the scale of the crisis - the lack of hospital beds, ever-increasing daily new cases, shortage of vaccines and crucial drugs like Remdesivir, and the oxygen crisis - becomes clear. "I have never seen anything like this... we are so helpless. Like many doctors I am troubled... I don't know what to do... I am heart-broken. Maybe if I tell you what worries me... if I can help you understand, I might be more at peace," Dr Gilada says at the start of the five-minute video. "We have to manage so many patients... critically ill patients are being treated at home because there are no beds... we are not enjoying this...," she adds, breaking down in tears at this point.