<p>Indian coronavirus patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a New Delhi hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a Sikh temple, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street.</p>.<p>A massive surge in Covid-19 cases in India, which set a new global record of the most number of infections in a day on Sunday, has left many infected people struggling to find treatment, with hospitals overcrowded and many running out of oxygen.</p>.<p>Total infections stand at 16.96 million and deaths at 192,311, health ministry data showed.</p>.<p>At the Sikh gurudwara (temple) in Ghaziabad city on the outskirts of the capital Delhi, the humanitarian tragedy is visible on the street.</p>.<p>Sikh aid group Khalsa Help International has been buying small quantities of oxygen as and when it becomes available to help those in urgent need.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/tears-prayers-police-jcb-how-saroj-hospital-in-delhi-saved-over-100-lives-978501.html" target="_blank">Tears, prayers, police, JCB: How Saroj Hospital in Delhi saved over 100 lives</a></strong></p>.<p>Cars, vans and rickshaws plying Covid-19 patients and their families choked the street outside the temple on Saturday, as volunteers holding black oxygen cylinders spread out to help.</p>.<p>"I came here because I didn't get help anywhere else," said Manoj Kumar, who sat next to his mother Devi in the car as a volunteer monitored the flow of oxygen from the tank to her masked mouth.</p>.<p>"I called the gurudwara and they asked me to reach here fast," said Kumar.</p>.<p>A middle-aged woman in a van appeared to be palpitating as her adult son, holding her arm tried to keep her conscious, calling out: "Mummy? Mummy?"</p>.<p>In another van, a man lay unconscious on a car seat, legs stretching out of the door, as one volunteer vigorously rubbed his feet, while another pumped his chest to try to revive him.</p>.<p>Rummy, who is president of the gurudwara and founder of Khalsa Help International, said he began providing the service three days ago as cases started spiking in New Delhi.</p>.<p>"People are dying on the streets. That's why we started this," said Rummy.</p>.<p>Over 36 hours up to Saturday evening, Rummy estimates the Khalsa Help International group has saved around 700 patients, but some didn't survive.</p>.<p>Reuters witnessed two deaths there that evening.</p>.<p>As breathless patients arrived seeking oxygen, the street outside the temple resembled the emergency ward of a hospital, but crammed with cars not bed trolleys.</p>.<p>Rummy called out to those gathering, requesting them to disperse.</p>.<p>"Please remove the cars from the middle of the roads. Please keep to one lane," he said.</p>.<p>"You will all get oxygen."</p>
<p>Indian coronavirus patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a New Delhi hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a Sikh temple, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street.</p>.<p>A massive surge in Covid-19 cases in India, which set a new global record of the most number of infections in a day on Sunday, has left many infected people struggling to find treatment, with hospitals overcrowded and many running out of oxygen.</p>.<p>Total infections stand at 16.96 million and deaths at 192,311, health ministry data showed.</p>.<p>At the Sikh gurudwara (temple) in Ghaziabad city on the outskirts of the capital Delhi, the humanitarian tragedy is visible on the street.</p>.<p>Sikh aid group Khalsa Help International has been buying small quantities of oxygen as and when it becomes available to help those in urgent need.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/tears-prayers-police-jcb-how-saroj-hospital-in-delhi-saved-over-100-lives-978501.html" target="_blank">Tears, prayers, police, JCB: How Saroj Hospital in Delhi saved over 100 lives</a></strong></p>.<p>Cars, vans and rickshaws plying Covid-19 patients and their families choked the street outside the temple on Saturday, as volunteers holding black oxygen cylinders spread out to help.</p>.<p>"I came here because I didn't get help anywhere else," said Manoj Kumar, who sat next to his mother Devi in the car as a volunteer monitored the flow of oxygen from the tank to her masked mouth.</p>.<p>"I called the gurudwara and they asked me to reach here fast," said Kumar.</p>.<p>A middle-aged woman in a van appeared to be palpitating as her adult son, holding her arm tried to keep her conscious, calling out: "Mummy? Mummy?"</p>.<p>In another van, a man lay unconscious on a car seat, legs stretching out of the door, as one volunteer vigorously rubbed his feet, while another pumped his chest to try to revive him.</p>.<p>Rummy, who is president of the gurudwara and founder of Khalsa Help International, said he began providing the service three days ago as cases started spiking in New Delhi.</p>.<p>"People are dying on the streets. That's why we started this," said Rummy.</p>.<p>Over 36 hours up to Saturday evening, Rummy estimates the Khalsa Help International group has saved around 700 patients, but some didn't survive.</p>.<p>Reuters witnessed two deaths there that evening.</p>.<p>As breathless patients arrived seeking oxygen, the street outside the temple resembled the emergency ward of a hospital, but crammed with cars not bed trolleys.</p>.<p>Rummy called out to those gathering, requesting them to disperse.</p>.<p>"Please remove the cars from the middle of the roads. Please keep to one lane," he said.</p>.<p>"You will all get oxygen."</p>