Yogini could see that the ICU was at its limit.
“All the beds there were full of patients, so it was pretty obvious there was only a small amount of machinery available,” Yogini recalled. “Seriously ill patients were coming in continuously.”
There was just one ventilator free. Ganesh was so sick his chances of survival looked poor at that moment, even with a ventilator.
Dr. Kinikar wanted to try. She put Ganesh on the last ventilator.
Some of the other doctors criticized this decision. Soon two more babies arrived who had difficulty breathing. Hospital policy forbids removing children with a poor prognosis from ventilators to make way for others.
Kinikar now found herself in the situation she had dreaded. There were no ventilators available for the two newly arrived children.
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