India’s deadly Covid-19 second wave has devasted many big cities. Along with doctors &
nurses, ambulance drivers are also playing a significant role in fighting against Covid-19.
After knowing condition of a Covid-Patient, an ambulance driver dropped that patient to the
hospital which is at 45 km from the house of patient in 75 minutes.
(a) What is the average speed of the ambulance in km/h?
(b) What is the speed of ambulance in m/s?
(c) If distance time-graph of motion of ambulance is plotted, which quantity is
represented by its slope?
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India's deadly Covid-19 second wave has devastated big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Pune. Hospitals and crematoriums have run out of space, and funerals are taking place in car parks. But the pandemic has now firmly gripped many smaller cities, towns and villages where the devastation is largely under-reported.
Rajesh Soni spent eight hours taking his father from one hospital to another in a tuk-tuk in Kota district in the northern state of Rajasthan on Tuesday. He couldn't get an ambulance and the rickety vehicle was his only option. At 5pm, he decide to end his search for a hospital bed as his father's condition was deteriorating. He then "left everything to fate" and came home.
"I am giving him medicines at home, but I am not sure that he will survive. We have been left to die on the streets," Rajesh said. He says several private hospitals even "conned" him and took money to do tests, only to tell him later to take his father away as there were no beds.
"I am not a wealthy person. I spent whatever I had to pay the tuk-tuk driver and to hospitals. Now I am going to borrow some money to get an oxygen cylinder at home."
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Such stories have become common in Delhi, the worst affected city in India, but similar accounts are now coming in from smaller cities and towns across the country.