A day after 80-year old Motiram Goyal’s family moved the Delhi high court to seek directions for Delhi government to provide him a bed with a ventilator in a government hospital, he succumbed to the disease.

Though the Delhi government counsel told the court that they had arranged a bed the day they received an application and that he had died by the time they called him, questions are being asked as to why he could not get a bed in a Delhi government hospital and was kept without treatment in a non-COVID designated private hospital.

After these developments, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal accused certain private hospitals in the city of turning away patients. But Goyal wasn’t the only one who was denied treatment. Another woman claims she lost father as he was denied admission

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