BENGALURU: Two police personnel from a Hoysala patrolling vehicle took a 55-year-old man, who had met with an accident in Kalyannagar on Monday evening, to two hospitals looking for a bed but couldn’t get one. He succumbed before a third hospital could take him in.
The incident happened on Kalyannagar main road around 6pm when scooter-borne Srinivas, a fabrication engineer and resident of Kalkere, skid off the road. Passersby rushed to his aid, gave him water and alerted the police control room.
Soon a Hoysala vehicle (number 238) reached the spot with assistant sub-inspector Yenkoba and woman constable Shwetha. “The scooterist, whom we could not identify then, had sustained serious injuries. We shifted him to our vehicle and rushed him to a private hospital about 2km away from the accident site, but beds were not available there. We took him to another private hospital, around 3km away, and received the same answer. Finally, we went to Ambedkar medical college hospital, but by then the man had breathed his last,” a senior police officer quoted Yenkoba and Shwetha.
Hospitals are full and beds are unavailable following the second wave of Covid cases.
Identifying the man was a challenge. He had no mobile phone, driving licence or any other thing that could reveal his identify. “With the help of his vehicle licence plate number, we reached his house in Kalkere by Tuesday morning. The family members came to the mortuary in the afternoon and identified the body,” Banasawadi traffic police said.
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