‘So much air but not a bit for him’

Just four years ago, Papia Sultana donated a kidney to save her husband.   But on Wednesday, when all he needed was more oxygen, she watched helplessly. He died of Covid-19 at the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Her cries of anguish echoed through a hospital already inundated with such grief on a day that saw the highest daily deaths -- 18 -- in the RMCH Covid unit. Eight