At the height of the pandemic, Hemant Gulati was receiving anywhere between 100 to 120 calls every day, some of them way past midnight.
When the pandemic broke out, it caught everyone including hospitals, doctors and the government by surprise. "Given the scale and the stigma associated with the disease, I often read reports about patients being turned away. This was despite the fact that the Delhi government app indicated that beds were available. I wondered how I could help the people?" says Hemant Gulati, advocate, Delhi High Court. Gulati started small, initially, by circulating his phone number on social media pages, adding that if there was a Covid patient being refused a bed in any private or government hospital, they could approach him to file a writ petition on his/her behalf in the Delhi High Court.
Word got around and slowly and steadily, people started contacting Gulati. "There was a lacuna between what the Delhi government was claiming and the ground situation. I started getting somewhere around 100 to 120 calls a day even at odd hours. I have filed a writ petition at midnight, sometimes early morning, and got the orders within seven to eight hours to get the patient admitted."
Besides taking the legal route, he also put together data such as the contact numbers of Chief Medical Officers, doctors present at different hospitals, and maintained it 24X7. He recalls receiving a call at 3:30 in the morning. "There was a lady at the other end crying profusely. She was accompanying her father in an ambulance parked outside Safdarjung, which did not have beds. The oxygen levels in the ambulance were plummeting." Gulati swung into action and called the doctor on duty at AIIMS, which is across the road, and got the patient admitted — all within a span of 50 minutes.
In another case where a South Delhi hospital had thrown out a girl with 85 per cent disability, he had to take the court’s help. The girl was immediately admitted to a hospital in Saket while an inquiry was initiated against the errant hospital.
Q & A
Have things improved over time?
There were lacunae, which the government has improved slowly. Earlier, the data was two days old. I was maintaining parallel data along with the numbers of doctors on duty and CMOs, as sometimes you can’t file the writ petition immediately.
With the number of people being infected coming down every day in Delhi, have the calls dropped?
Nowadays, the calls that I get are for plasma because now the beds are available. I am coordinating for it with the Delhi Government nodal officers. The Delhi government has approved the ILBS Hospital to provide plasma but only if you have a donor available.
What about extending help to those outside Delhi?
Whenever lawyers have called, I have helped them file petitions. In one case, a family reached out to say they were having problems getting a patient admitted in AIIMS, Bihar. I called the CMO and facilitated it.
Com mais de 3 mil mortes nos últimos dois dias, o México assumiu o 3º lugar no ranking de mortes por  do Worldometer, com uma cifra de 155.145 fatalidades. O total de infectados já chega a 1.825.519, dos quais 1.376.073 já estão curados. 

O que surpreende é a Taxa de Letalidade, que é de cerca de 11% (o que significa dizer que de cada 100 pessoas infectadas, 11 morrem). No mundo todo, esta taxa é de cerca de 2% (cera de 2 milhões de óbitos para cerca de 100 milhões de infectados).

Esta discrepância pode indicar não que o vírus seja mais letal entre os mexicanos, mas que faltam testes para detectar mais casos de contaminações. 

Já na Índia, agora em 4º no ranking de mortes, o caso é o contrário: o país tem uma Taxa de Letalidade de apenas 1,4%. No entanto, longe de ser positivo, o índice pode indicar que os doentes sequer chegam aos hospitais para serem testados, acabando por morrer em casa sem ter o diagnóstico incorreto. Em julho passado o advogado Hemant Gulati disse ao ''India Express'': "Sempre que um paciente covid-19 vai a um hospital, o hospital diz que não há leitos disponíveis, portanto, ou os hospitais não estão notificando os dados corretamente ou o governo não tem controle sobre o funcionamento dos hospitais". 

Em agosto, o advogado falou ao ''India Today'' que semanas antes recebia cerca de 100 ligações por dia de pessoas se queixando da falta de leitos hospitalares para tratamento da covid. 

A nação asiática tem hoje um total de 10.720.971 infectados, o que a uma taxa de 2% elevaria os óbitos para mais de 200 mil. 

'''Os cinco países com mais mortes'''

# Estados Unidos: 443.769
# Brasil: 221.676	
# México: 155.145
# Índia: 154.047	
# Reino Unido: 103.126

'''O Worldometer'''

O Worldometer se define como um website ou serviço "administrado por uma equipe internacional de desenvolvedores, pesquisadores e voluntários com o objetivo de tornar as estatísticas mundiais disponíveis em um formato instigante e relevante no tempo para um amplo público ao redor do mundo. É publicado por uma pequena e independente empresa de mídia digital com sede nos Estados Unidos". Segundo o site também, "foi eleito um dos melhores sites de referência gratuita pela American Library Association (ALA), a maior e mais antiga associação de bibliotecas do mundo".