{"id":60607,"date":"2023-12-18T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/18\/teenager-fayza-ansari-death-exposes-callousness-and-corruption-in-india-hospitals"},"modified":"2023-12-18T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:44:54","slug":"pick-her-up-and-take-her-away-teenagers-death-exposes-callousness-and-corruption-in-indias-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60607","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pick her up and take her away\u2019: teenager\u2019s death exposes callousness and corruption in India\u2019s hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>From the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic arc \u2013 turned away by hospitals, her sobbing pleas ignored, her parents desperately trying to find a bed for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf beds aren\u2019t available, what must poor patients do? Die?\u201d These were Fayza\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/18\/teenager-fayza-ansari-death-exposes-callousness-and-corruption-in-india-hospitals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 systemFrom the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[2228,353,59,566,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-delhi","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607\/revisions\/60608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}