Watch video: Denied medical aid, 12-year-old dies on father's shoulder in Kanpur

In a shocking incident, a man who lost his 12-year-old son, on Monday had to forcibly carry him on his shoulder in a bid to get him admitted in a hospital after one medical centre in Uttar Pradesh refused to admit him

In a shocking incident, a man who lost his 12-year-old son, on Monday had to forcibly carry him on his shoulder in a bid to get him admitted in a hospital after one medical centre in Uttar Pradesh refused to admit him.

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According to reports, Sunil Kumar, had taken his son Ansh to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital, one of Kanpur's biggest hospitals for high fever treatment. However, Kumar said that the staff and emergency ward of the hospital allegedly did not provide any assistance and delayed treatment by 30 minutes.

The hospital authorities then allegedly told him to take his son to a children's hospital which was 250 metres away. This according to him led to his child's death.

A similar incident happened in Odisha where a tribal man taking his wife’s body home on his shoulder after hospital authorities denied him a mortuary van or an ambulance. (Read more)

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