Global Sisters Report invited its sister columnists in India to share their experiences of how the terrible outbreak of COVID-19 has affected their country in the last few months.
Lalita Roshni Lakra is a Daughter of St. Anne from the Simdega district of Jharkhand, North India, reiterates, choking India screams, “More oxygen, please.”
Almost all calls and messages shock us with news of death, calls of requests and help, with crying and sobbing. We are tired of responding, “Rest in peace,” and exhorting friends to stay home, stay safe, take care, prayers assured! Everywhere, there is breathlessness, helplessness, mourning, sinking hopes and prevailing despair.
People are being treated by the roadsides, in parks and makeshift hospitals with saline bottles hanging on the trunks and branches of trees. The scarcity of medical facilities is scandalous to us; in this tug of war between life and death, death seems to be stronger, swallowing lives.
Sisters and novices from several Daughters of St. Anne provinces have been preparing and distributing lunch packets at St. Anne’s Hospital & Research Centre in Raja Ulhatu, Jharkhand, India.
WhatsApp groups, Facebook and other social media outlets, print and electronic media feature sad stories frequently. More than 100 priests and religious and four bishops have died so far in India. Five priests died in the state of Gujarat in 15 hours.
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