Woman Dies In Car Outside Noida Hospital, Gasping, Unable To Find Beds

The woman, who lay in the car outside the state-run GIMS hospital in Noida for nearly three hours, lived alone in Noida while her two children lived with her husband in Madhya Pradesh.

As India reels under the deadly second wave of coronavirus, countless cases of unspeakable tragedies have emerged from across the country. On Thursday, a 35-year-old Covid positive woman died in the parking lot of a government-run hospital in Noida, gasping for breath as the person accompanying her begged the authorities for a bed. Jagriti Gupta, who lay in the car outside the state-run GIMS hospital in Noida for nearly three hours, lived alone in the city while her two children lived with her husband in Madhya Pradesh. She worked in Greater Noida as an engineer. "I was standing right there as her (Jagriti Gupta's) landlord ran around, asking for help. But no one listened to him. Around 3:30 pm, she collapsed. When the landlord then ran to the reception to report that she is no longer breathing, the staff rushed outside and declared her dead," Sachin, an eyewitness, told NDTV. As the country battles a tidal wave of Covid cases in this devastating second wave, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath last week claimed that there is no shortage of oxygen in his state and that the initial problems around increasing the number of hospital beds were quickly overcome. But, on the ground, these claims of the government quickly unravel.