A 48‑year‑old autorickshaw driver named Venu died after a long fight at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and Hospital. His death has sparked a firestorm across Kerala, with critics saying the state government and the health ministry were at fault.
V.D. Satheesan, Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition, slammed the administration. “Venu didn’t just die – he was killed by a collapsed health system,” he said. He asked prosecutors to treat Venu’s last‑minute voice message as a dying declaration and to open a murder case against those responsible.
Venu lived in Panmana in Kollam. He was brought to the capital hospital last week after a doctor in Kollam ordered an emergency angiogram. When the surgery was postponed, the family says they tried to get treatment for six days and saw no action. After an audio file was released, Venu complained that doctors cared for patients “like a dog” and that the hospital was a “centre of bribery.”
The audio clip flew around the state that night, and Venu’s family demanded the story get out if anything more bad happened. His sudden death on Wednesday evening drew angry protests from Congress‑led UDF workers, who said Kerala’s public health system had crumbled.
Hospital officials deny anything wrong, claiming all care was offered and Venu’s condition worsened fast. Still, Satheesan says the health minister’s own statement that the system is in “systemic failure” proves the crisis is real. He says the health minister can’t stay in office if regular patients keep dying in government hospitals.
People now want the government to step up and fix the hospital’s broken processes. Inside Kerala, the debate will keep heating up as the state faces its toughest health‑care crisis in years.
Source: ianslive
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