‘Pick her up and take her away’: teenager’s death exposes callousness and corruption in India’s hospitals
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed by an overloaded and often heartless healthcare system
From the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic arc – turned away by hospitals, her sobbing pleas ignored, her parents desperately trying to find a bed for her.
“If beds aren’t available, what must poor patients do? Die?” These were Fayza’s last words, captured on a video taken by her father to gain some attention. The images of the frail and wild-eyed teenager, who by now was bleeding from her nose and ears, finally reached the top government hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, where she was belatedly admitted on 5 December.
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