Indian villagers turn to unlicensed clinics as COVID spreads to the countryside

Moorti, 62, a villager suffering from fever rests on a cot as she waits to receive treatment at a clinic set up by a local villager, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Parsaul village in Greater Noida, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 22, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

PARSAUL VILLAGE, India (Reuters) - An Indian former hospital worker with no medical education is running a small unlicensed clinic, tending to patients with breathing difficulties and checking their oxygen levels as they lie on cots on the mud floor.

India has been hard hit by a second wave of coronavirus infections which has overwhelmed its health system, even in big cities.