You Are In Queue: Crowded Hospital Tells Terminal Cancer Patient

GB Pant has no bed for laundryman suffering from liver cancer in its advanced stage

You Are In Queue: Crowded Hospital Tells Terminal Cancer Patient

GB Pant has no bed for laundryman suffering from liver cancer in its advanced stage

He is waiting for the last two months to get a bed in the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital to get treatment for liver cancer, which he knows is killing him slowly yet steadily.

Ran Singh, a laundry man in Shalimar Bagh, was told by the doctors at the Out-patient department (OPD) of the hospital that he was terminally ill with liver cancer. He was advised to get himself admitted for proper treatment.

However, the poor washer man did not know that surviving cancer was not even half as difficult as getting a bed in a government-run hospital.

"For the last two months, doctors at the GB Pant hospital have been denying me admission, saying there is no empty bed.

The same doctors have told me that my cancer is at very advanced stage and it will be difficult to save me if the treatment is not started immediately," a dejected Singh said.

"I have been asked if I had any reference from an influential person or a political leader which may help me get a bed in the hospital," he said.

Even as he was asked to wait till there was a vacancy, the cancer is growing by the day. With his meager means Singh cannot even think of going to a private hospital.

"Treatment in private hospitals will cost about Rs 3 lakh. We have no idea what to do; we don't have money to even buy medicines.

Our eldest daughter has just passed her class XI exams and there is no other earning member in the family," said Singh's wife Bala.
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"Every day I go to the hospital with the hope that some miracle will happen. But I seldom get to meet the doctors.

Every day there are thousands of people like me who have to return empty handed," said Singh.

Bala further said that Singh cannot be operated upon due to his weakness and chemotherapy and medication is the only chance they have got.

"We have exhausted all our savings in getting his tests (X Ray, CT Scan and endoscopy) done and there is little money left to afford his daily medication.

We have no connections to influence the doctors," said the couple,u00a0 leaving everything to their luck yet again.