Hours later, Aman died. “I could do nothing to save him,” his father, Manoj Sharma, said.
The case has emerged exactly a week after another child, Avinash, died in a similar manner. The seven-year-old’s parents took him from hospital to hospital, but were turned away. After he died, his parents jumped off the fourth floor of a building.
Aman’s parents say he was doomed the moment he was turned away by the government-run Safdarjung hospital four days before. “Because they refused to admit my son, he did not get treatment for 24 hours,” said Mr Sharma.
Aman, whose family stays in south Delhi, had tested positive for dengue on September 10, Thursday, by a private hospital, which told his family to take him immediately to the Safdarjung hospital.
“At Safdarjung, we were told he does not have dengue and he is fine…They said take him home,” says Mr Sharma.
The child’s condition improved slightly, but then it deteriorated.
This time, the family took Aman to the Jeevan Nursing Home, which treated him for a little over a day. Late on Saturday night, however, the family was told that the boy had to be taken urgently to a government hospital as this one did not have equipment.
Aman was first taken to the Moolchand hospital, which said it had no beds. Two other private hospitals refused to admit the child.
Hours later at around 4 am, the family went back to the Safdarjung hospital, which admitted the boy this time, but allegedly left him unattended for over an hour.
Exhausted, Aman’s parents took him to the Holy Family hospital where he died on Sunday morning.
The Safdarjung hospital claims the boy was admitted for half an hour, and that it had asked the family to wait but they had left.
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