Kanpur: Days after a man was seen carrying his wife’s body after a hospital denied him vehicle, in a similar incident a 12-year-old boy died due to late treatment and poor state of health care in Uttar Pradesh.
Sunil Kumar, a mechanic had rushed out on foot carrying his son on his shoulders. “He was in Class 6 and very intelligent. I took him to a local hospital, they asked me to take him to the government hospital. He had high fever and was treated at local clinics for two days. He died on my shoulder,” Kumar alleged.

According to reports, Kumar had waited for nearly 30 minutes at the emergency ward of the government-run Hallet hospital. But he was told to take the boy to the children’s section some 200 metres away. After being denied the stretcher he had to rush carrying his son on his shoulder. “The doctors did not even examine my son,” said Kumar.

At the children’s section, he was told that the boy was dead, that he would have survived even moments earlier. “It took me nine minutes….how could he be dead in nine minutes?” the father sobs. “We admitted him. We found that there was no heart rate, no pulse, and the pupils are fixated and dilated. We could tell from his condition that he died two to three hours before being brought in,” said Dr RC Gupta, the chief medical officer of the hospital.

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered two inquiries into allegations that the child was denied timely treatment.

The entire incident of the father carrying his son on his shoulders was filmed by a reporter.