The family of a woman with COVID who has missed dialysis because hospitals are overrun describes their desperation.
![Lakshmi Yadav, 51, has tested positive for COVID and has missed dialysis appointments as the hospitals are overrun [Saurabh Sharma/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Vijay-Lakshmi-Yadav.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Safina Nabi is a multimedia journalist and a Pulitzer Center grantee from South Asia. She writes about gender, health, human rights, social justice, d... evelopment, and the environment.
The family of a woman with COVID who has missed dialysis because hospitals are overrun describes their desperation.
![Lakshmi Yadav, 51, has tested positive for COVID and has missed dialysis appointments as the hospitals are overrun [Saurabh Sharma/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Vijay-Lakshmi-Yadav.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Unable to find a hospital bed for his father, Ashish Shrivastav watched helplessly as his father struggled to breathe.
![Sushil Kumar, 70, who died on April 16 after his son tried for 36 hours to find him a hospital bed [Sumit Kumar/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3332c7bb-3166-4060-8ae4-110cc93db645.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)