The medical infrastructure of the nation hascollapsed due to an overwhelming number of the latest COVID-19 cases. People ofDelhi, Uttar Pradesh, and many other states are suffering as there are novacant beds, oxygen cylinders in the hospitals. Acute shortage of beds andother medical facilities is claiming many lives a day. In another gloomyincident a one-year-old boy, who caught Covid-19 has died outside a hospitalwhile waiting for a bed.
The tragic incident has reported fromVisakhapatnam where the mother of the boy-child stood helplessly watching her sonsuffer from the disease outside the King George Hospital. All the beds in thehospital were occupied so she could not take her son inside the hospital toavail one.
According to theeyewitnesses, the woman strived hard to arrange a bed for her infected son. Shekept pleading to authorities to treat her son however, no one paid heed to itand her son breathed last in an ambulance waiting for a hospital bed.
Notably, King George, the biggest govt hospital in Andhra Pradesh, however, has failed to cater tothe needs of patients.
This tragedy raisesquestions on the Andhra Pradesh government's handling of the pandemic situationas earlier a man had to take his mother’s dead body in a two-wheeler instead ofan ambulance to the crematorium.