A doctor, who was tested positive for COVID-19, died after being allegedly turned away from three hospitals in Bengaluru. According to NDTV, the deceased, identified as Dr Manjunath, was a frontline COVID-19 doctor. He was turned away from the hospitals when he was extremely ill and struggling to breathe as he was not able to produce his COVID-19 test results.

The doctor was working in the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Karnataka government and was based in the Ramanagara district. Dr Manjunath’s family said that he had approached three hospitals in the city in June and they asked him for his COVID-19 report, which he could not produce at that time. His brother-in-law Nagendra, a doctor working with Bengaluru municipal body BBMP, who is responsible for allotting hospital beds, could not help him either.