PHOTOS: In Mumbai, a city with a history of ambulance shortages and where the coronavirus pandemic has claimed nearly 1,300 lives, every bit of help counts. Izhaar Hussain Shaikh is a 30-year-old ambulance driver whose shifts sometimes stretch 16 hours.
Izhaar Hussain Shaikh, an ambulance driver who works for HelpNow, an initiative to help the stretched services of first responders, waits for his helper after picking up a COVID-19 patient in Mumbai, India May 28, 2020. It’s an exhausting job and Shaikh's daily shifts are grueling, sometimes even stretching to 16 hours.
The 30-year-old ambulance driver works for HelpNow, an initiative started by three engineering students in 2019 to help the stretched services of first responders in the Indian coastal city of Mumbai. It charges patients, but services are free for the city’s administrators, police force, medicos and the poor.
It’s a grueling job, with Shaikh’s daily shifts sometimes stretching 16 hours. Responding to an urgent call demands that his ambulance makes its way through Mumbai’s notoriously heavy traffic and narrow streets.
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