Turned Away By Five Delhi Hospitals, COVID-19 Patient Takes A Train To Bhopal, Dies In Hospital

The COVID-19 situation in the national capital has been turning worse by every passing day and it has reached a point where hospitals are unable to admit more patients. Though the Arvind Kejriwal government has denied this and still insists that there are enough beds still available in the hospitals across Delhi, in the past few days several people have taken to social media to allege that they have been refused hospital admission or COVID-19 test despite showing the symptoms.

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Now yet another such incident has surfaced, where a man who was living in Delhi was forced to take a train to Bhopal to get treatment for COVID-19 after he was allegedly turned away by hospitals in Delhi.

According to his family, the 42-year-old was showing COVID-19 symptoms like high fever for days, and initially, three doctors refused to even treat him, but he was later given paracetamol from a clinic.

Since the symptoms did not subside he went to another hospital in Anand Vihar, where he was asked to get a tested for COVID-19. With the high fever, he drove to the GTB Hospital, a designated COVID-19 hospital, where he was told they hadn¡¯t begun testing yet.

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As his health condition deteriorated, a relative who was working as a lab technician in Bhopal asked him to come to the city. So, the 42-year-old took a train, the Bhopal Express from Delhi where his high fever somehow went undetected during the mandatory screening and reached Bhopal on Saturday.

The relative who picked him up from the railway station took him directly to the Jai Prakash District Hospital from where he was referred to the Hamidia Hospital. By the time he was given proper medical care, his condition had deteriorated badly and died on the same day. Doctors said the man's oxygen levels plummeted while he was being taken to hospital, where his condition did not improve and he eventually died.

Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Narottam Mishra blamed Delhi's Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government for the death of a Bhopal resident due to COVID-19, saying he did not get timely treatment in the national capital following the delay in testing.

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"Kejriwal won the elections (earlier this year) in the name of Mohalla clinics and providing health services. He cheated the people to win the elections," he said. "When the time to test these facilities came, a promising person died, who wandered in Delhi for five days but did not get treatment, Mishra said.