Docs cancel surgeries due to water crisis in drought-hit Latur

The drought crisis in Maharashtra's latur region is worsening with not just households and farms but even hospitals being left to suffer due to water scarcity, reports CNBC-TV18.

Doctors from the region say they are finding it hard to treat patients and have been forced to put off planned surgeries and are performing only emergency surgeries due to an acute water supply.

The situation is so severe that even a private water tanker takes two days to reach the hospital, making it even more difficult for doctors to treat patients needing immediate surgery, they say.

Dr. Parag Narkhade, a resident doctor at a Latur hospital says doctors do not even have enough water to wash their hands properly pre- or post-surgery, let alone have access to water required during the surgery.