Daijiworld Media Network - Ballari (SP)

Ballari, May 18: A person who went to hospital with his two daughters, duly riding a motorbike, breathed his last in front of the community health centre in a village with his head resting on the laps of his two daughters. This tragic incident happened at Moka village in Ballari taluk on Monday May 17.

The man in question, Jadiyappa (50) from M Gonal village, is survived by wife and six daughters. As he suffered from acute cough and breathlessness, he came to the health centre for treatment. The staff overlooked him in the guise of Covid tests, and asked him to go to Ballari. To go to Ballari, the man was coming out of the centre with his daughters when the breathing problem aggravated. After a brief amount of struggling for breath, he passed away.

The daughters were unable to control their grief. But no one came to help them for several hours. Later, some members of the family arranged to shift the body. This poor family has become directionless now.

District health officer, H L Janardan, said that the health centre does not have shortage of doctors but the people who have symptoms of Covid infection, should get themselves hospitalised. He reasoned that many people die as they rush to hospitals at the last moment after their health condition undergoes extreme changes.