India sprawling healthcare system is overburdened even at the best of times.

With the Corona virus pandemic, the system is facing its biggest challenge yet.

Millions of patients across the country no longer have access to basic medical care.

And inside the hospitals, doctors, too, are struggling to cope with this new reality.

Most of the healthcare service is our limited of shadow.

Main emergency are people with other illnesses male end up in covered emergency with I recovered infection.

So it is very different but difficult to segregate.

Dr.

Srinivas Raj Kumar is the general secretary of the Resident Doctors Association at Ames, with doctors and nurses already testing positive across the country in large numbers, he is a worried man.

We're sending soldiers without any protective suit off the sufficient ammunition to fight this battle.

There are certain places in the country.

Even very good hospitals are waiting rain codes on Djurgarden, kind of like made in home kind of gears, Harry much satiated Swart knock.

It is very horrible to see, and it's not just shortage of personal protective equipment.

That's a problem.

According to one of India's leading epidemiologists, Dr Roman and Lakshman A.

Ryan, the country may soon stare at a shortage off medical workers.

You know, to me, this is the number one issue with our response weakened by beds, we can buy ventilators weakened by a person protective equipment.

Or the country can make these what we can't make it very short notice are actually medical providers.

I think we need to emphasize personal protective equipment and infection control for all of our health.

Workers, not just doctors.

Also nurses all health care providers.

Every morning, Salma beads her seven year old son, Ion, in a discreet corner right outside the country's most prestigious public hospital aims in New Delhi.

A few months ago, doctors in the eastern state of Orissa, about 1500 kilometers from New Delhi, told Selma that her son needed a complex neurosurgery, the only doctors who could perform it free off coast, where it seems I got one family arrived in Delhi on March 2nd.

They found beds in this crowded shelter and settled down for what they hoped would be two weeks with the lock down in place.

The hospital has closed many departments to prevent the virus from spreading.

For all the patients here, Theo biggest problem is finding food Well, yeah, but familiar to people like that, there are at least a dozen tents of this kind on either side of the road outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Now there are at least 20 people in each tent, some of them suffering from very grave ailments like cancer, others waiting for major surgeries like neurosurgery or cardiac transplants.

As night falls on New Delhi, Indians step out of their homes to light candles for the brave healthcare workers fighting this pandemic.

In recent days, many doctors have said that these are meaningless unless backed by supplies off much needed personal protective equipments.