Covid: 1-year-old boy dies waiting for bed outside hospital, mother watches helplessly
The one-year-old boy died gasping for breath as his mother tried to get a bed for him at the hospital.
A one-year-old boy who had contracted Covid-19 died outside a hospital in Visakhapatnam while waiting for a bed as his mother watched helplessly.
The tragedy took place outside the King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam.
Eyewitnesses say the woman tried hard to get a bed for her ill son but to no avail as all beds in the hospital were occupied.
She kept pleading to the authorities as her son gasped for breath. Finally, he died in inside an ambulance waiting for a hospital bed.
King George Hospital is the biggest government hospital in Andhra Pradesh, but the situation is such that it too had no bed to spare.
This is yet another tragedy that raises questions about the state government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier, a man was forced to carry body of his dead mother on a two-wheeler as no ambulance was available for them to carry her to the crematorium from a hospital.
The incident was reported in the Palasa area of Srikakulam district on Monday.
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