{"id":19249,"date":"2020-06-12T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/india-coronavirus-agony-i-did-everything-to-save-my-wife-and-baby"},"modified":"2020-06-12T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:03:18","slug":"indias-coronavirus-agony-i-did-everything-to-save-my-wife-and-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19249","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s coronavirus agony: &#8216;I did everything to save my wife and baby&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant woman turned away from eight hospitals as pandemic pushes healthcare to brink of collapse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past five days, Bijendra Singh has been haunted by the voice of his dead wife, Neelam. \u201cWhy could you not get me the treatment that I needed?\u201d she asks. \u201cWhy could you not save me, save our baby?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was around 6am on 5 June when Neelam, more than eight months pregnant, began complaining of lower back pain and breathlessness. Presuming it was early contractions, Singh and his wife set off in his brother\u2019s auto-rickshaw to a government hospital in the Uttar Pradesh city of Noida. Before leaving, they kissed their five year-old son goodbye and promised they would be returning with the birthday present he had requested: a baby sister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/india-coronavirus-agony-i-did-everything-to-save-my-wife-and-baby\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant woman turned away from eight hospitals as pandemic pushes healthcare to brink of collapseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFor the past five days, Bijendra Singh has been haunted by the voice of his dead wife, Neelam&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19250,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions\/19250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}