Liver patient Shahjahan's family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a coronavirus unit.
The 40-year-old mother had been on a ventilator with an acute infection for almost two weeks when she left Lok Nayak hospital on Tuesday night .She died at her family home in Delhi the next morning. Other hospitals had turned her away because of the pandemic.
It can cause people with other life-threatening diseases to miss out on vital care - especially in places like India, where healthcare systems are shakier.Dozens of people with serious medical conditions are camped outside India's national medical institute in tents set up by the Delhi government. Waste littered the subway floor that is now home to more than 10 families unable to get back to their hometowns, with the mattresses so close that social distancing was impossible.
"I'm getting distress calls from across India over access to basic medicines and treatment," said Nidhi."It is important to expand healthcare facilities to fight COVID-19. At the same time, hospitals and ambulances have to be available for patients with other problems," he said. As her condition deteriorated - bleeding from the tongue and in unbearable pain - she filed a petition with the Delhi High Court and has finally been admitted to AIIMS.
Public health expert Anant Bhan said India's focus on COVID-19 could lead to other diseases such as tuberculosis spreading.
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