Several Covid hospitals in Ahmedabad are not admitting patients who arrive in private vehicles. 6 hours ago A patient wearing an oxygen mask looks on as his wife holds a battery-operated fan while waiting inside an auto-rickshaw to enter a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad on April 21. | Amit Dave/ Reuters
On April 22, a day when Gujarat reported 13,105 new Covid-19 cases, a video of a young man lying on the road outside Ahmedabad’s Shardaben Hospital was widely shared on social media. The man had been denied admission in the designated Covid hospital because he did not arrive in the government-run 108 ambulance service, sparking online outrage and media attention.