BENGALURU: Hundreds of people seeking treatment for cancer at state-run Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bengaluru have been forced to spend a day or two sleeping on pavements on the premises as they await Covid RT-PCR test results.
A Covid negative report is mandatory to secure a bed at the hospital. Since most of these people come from far-off dis tricts and cannot afford hotel rooms, they have nowhere to go. Those stranded include patients who are negative for Covid but are undergoing cancer evalua tion tests, forcing them to stay on the campus for weeks. Most of the men sleep in the parking lot at night.
