Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, May 7: A woman from Bengaluru, who shuttled between hospitals in Bengaluru searching for a bed for her husband suffering from breathing difficulties, failed to get either a bed or an ambulance. Then she got an ambulance from Mangaluru and came here to save her husband, but her efforts went in vain.

Kavita's husband, Ravishankar, a resident of Ayyappa Nagar in K R Puram, suffered from breathing difficulties on Wednesday. Kavita took him to Patil Hospital. As Ravishankar's pulse rate was 86, he was referred to super speciality hospital. But there they said they do not have bed or oxygen and advised her to take him to East Point Hospital. "I carried my husband on a scooter, but had to return home after visiting several hospitals as I failed to get a bed," she said.

Wenlock hospital (file photo)

She said that her husband showed some signs of improvement from Wednesday afternoon till 5 pm but by 6 pm the problem aggravated. She called for an ambulance but she got the reply that she was on the waiting list. She made about ten calls but every time she got the same response. She then arranged for an ambulance from Mangaluru with help from her sister, and took her husband to Wenlock Hospital at night, but the doctors said he had already died, she said. She stated that the corona report was received by then, and he was corona negative.

Learning that Ravishankar was being brought to Mangaluru from Bengaluru for treatment, a youth Congress war room team rushed to help him but by the time they reached Wenlock Hospital, they got information that he had died. Youth Congress district president, Luqman Bantwal, said that they have provided facility for his funeral.

Kavita said she is not in a position to take her husband's body back to Bengaluru by arranging a vehicle. She said once the close relatives arrive from Bengaluru, the funeral would be held in the city itself.