Barred to go to M’luru for treatment, one more Keralite dies
Team Udayavani, Mar 31, 2020, 3:28 PM IST
Kasaragod: A 49-year-old critically ill patient died on Tuesday after Karnataka police allegedly denied permission to allow his ambulance to cross the border at Thalpady on the Kasaragod-Mangaluru national highway, police said.
According to police, Sekhar of Manjeshwar near here died of cardiac arrest.
He was being taken to Mangaluru for follow-up treatment.
Critically ill patients from Kasaragod have since long being thronging the multi-specialty and high-tech hospitals in the neighboring state as it is closer than the facilities in the neighboring districts of Kerala.
Four seriously ill patients have died since Karnataka closed the borders following the lockdown.
A pregnant woman was delivered of a baby in the ambulance as its entry was blocked at Thalapady.
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