Amid devastating second wave of Covid-19 in the country including the national capital, the patients are increasingly feeling helpless as hospitals are struggling to properly handle the influx of patients. In Delhi, many patients and their relatives have been seen outside the hospitals waiting anxiously, and trying to approach the medical staff inside, only to be denied entry by the security personnel at the gate.

A Delhi resident who was seen accompanying a patient outside the LNJP Hospital, told IANS: "The patient is not being admitted. We were told to talk to the CMO of the hospital... also, someone told us that the medical director has refused (admission to patients)." He is not the only one who was seen requesting the security personnel to let him step inside. One Kiran Bhatia was also seen waiting along with her mother in an auto rickshaw "for the hospital manager to allow her to get inside the hospital along with her mother".