‘Hundreds of lives have been saved’

Sydney intensivist Dr Dhaval Ghelani has been running a crash course in ICU over Zoom for staff at a specially set up COVID-19 hospital in India
Dr Bijal Ghelani (left) and Dr Dhaval Ghelani.
Dr Bijal Ghelani (left) and Dr Dhaval Ghelani.

As India’s COVID-19 tragedy escalated, Sydney intensivist Dr Dhaval Ghelani couldn’t treat patients in person, so he took to Zoom to help out.

The Blacktown Hospital intensive care specialist was part of a drive by a charity to set up a 50-bed hospital for critically ill coronavirus patients in an impoverished rural region in India in just 10 days.