India’s surge of COVID-19 cases is amplifying the global burden of illness and death and straining the country’s healthcare system.
As treatment supplies of oxygen and medicine run low, the workers caring for patients are increasingly overtaxed.
Care work should be valued as an infrastructure of COVID-19 treatment, and hospital workers and families deserve greater support for their labor, says Harris Solomon, a medical anthropologist at Duke University.
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“The COVID-19 crisis has exposed care labor at its limits,” says Harris Solomon, a medical anthropologist at Duke University who studies emergency medical care in India.
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