On Sunday a man took his seriously ill mother Jayamma to several hospitals in Telangana including the dedicated Covid facility, Gandhi Hospital but he couldn’t secure a bed for her. On their way home, she died.According to the women’s son named pradeep, he had got his mother tested at a state-run primary health centre, but they simply scribbled ‘Covid positive’ behind the copy of her Aadhaar card. They didn’t issued any certificate or text message,he said. The Gandhi Hospital refused to accept the piece of paper as evidence of her ailment.Desperate for help Pradeep recorded a video on his mobile that showed his mother gasping for breath just outside the hospital in the ambulance, waiting for doctors to save her life. After she died, Pradeep took her body home in the same ambulance. Subsequently, a JCB machine shifted the body to the funeral ground.If you are from the middle class and you become Covid positive, there is no one who comes to your help. You are on your own. That much I have understood,” says Pradeep.
-article writer Syeda mehrukh naaz
