Firozabad: With a government hospital that runs out of space and private hospitals ask for deposits in advance after a viral fever outbreak, farmers and daily bets of Rural Firozabad – have struggled with limited access to health care and local economies that have been forced to borrow money when borrowing.
Rates or sell from some valuable items they have to handle their family members.
Shanti Devi, for example, took her sick husband to a private hospital in Firozabad.
Unit Bangle Workers from Nagla Sisan Village were asked for RS 20,000 before her husband, a bus driver, could be accepted.
“I don’t have money.
I borrow from a local lender.
Now, I have to pay Rs 30,000 in six months.
I don’t know how,” he told Toi.
His work was closed for a month because of the plague.
Her husband was too sick to report to work.
Subhash Kashyap, a farmer from Khera Langar, had to borrow 50,000 Rs to make his six-year-old daughter admit.
“Private hospitals will not even recognize patients without deposit,” he said.
In Jampi, Nandan Kumar, a labor contractor, sold his wedding ring for 45,000 Rs to make his 16-year-old son being treated.
“The hospital has requested Rs 30,000,” he said.
It was the same opposite the village.
“People are afraid.
They sell jewelry and animals to arrange care at a private hospital,” said Kamla Devi in Okhra Village.
“In our village, eight people have died in a month.
Two children died waited for treatment at Firozabad Medical College.
What can they do?” Known as the ‘City of Glass’ India, the Firozabad glass industry has become the backbone of the community economy and supports more than six lakh people.
After the outbreak of viral fever, most of the 400 registered units and 1,500 practical supply units were closed.
Workers remain around Rs 200 per day for eight working hours, TOI has reported.
With even that, people are in trouble.
“I haven’t gotten one Paisa in three weeks.
The manufacturing unit is closed and I don’t know when and whether it will be continued.
My five-year-old son suffered fever and diarrhea.
I have to borrow Rs 2,000 for our medicines and our food,” Santosh said Kumar, 40, from Firozabad.
For some people, what they can be kikis together in the end is not enough.
Jugendra Singh has borrowed more than RS 1 Lakh for the treatment of 10 family members in a private hospital in Agra.
He is a farmer from Gadhi Kalyan, unhealthy, with high fever.
“The public health center does not recognize patients with symptoms,” he said.
“My daughter Neha, 9, died on September 19 after struggling with high fever, abdominal pain, fatigue and vomiting for five days,” he added.
“His mother didn’t know.
He was too sick.”
Viral Fever: Family sells valuables to get relatives
