Lucknow, India – On April 14, Ashish Shrivastav, 39, bundled his 70-year-old father who was complaining of breathlessness into his small nano car and took him to the Vivekanand hospital in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
At the hospital, his father, Sushil Kumar, tested positive for COVID-19 but, despite his age and vulnerability, the hospital told him he could not be admitted as there were no beds available.
Ashish, who runs a private rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities, says he begged the doctors to admit his father but they told him to go to a government-run hospital instead.
So Ashish put his father back in the car, bought two five-litre oxygen cylinders and began the search for a hospital that would admit him.
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Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi and Aniruddha Ghosal05:26, Apr 29 2021
Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state. But the hospital wouldn’t let him in without a registration slip from the district’s chief medical officer. By the time the son got it, his father had died in the car, just outside the hospital doors. “My father would have been alive today if the hospital had just admitted him instead of waiting for a piece of paper,” Rohitas Karan said.
India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted
SHEIKH SAALIQ, KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, Associated Press
April 28, 2021
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