Kasaragod: Three people have lost their lives on Monday as a blockade was put up in interstate border by Karnataka police in the wake of the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
They were devoid of emergency health care as the Karnataka police stopped the ambulance carrying them to a hospital in Mangaluru at the border.
A similar case has also come about where a critically-ill person, was sent back by Manguluru hospital authorities on March 23 for being a Kasaragod native, also died on Monday.
This will be a fifth such case totalling the tally.
The deceased are identified as Madhavan, 50, Ayesha, 55 and Aziz Haji, 61 respectively. All three of them lived near the Kerala-Karnataka border.
A similar case was that of Udyavar native Ayesha, an asthma patient was referred to the Mangaluru Hospital by the hospital authorities at Uppali. When the authorities stopped her at the border, she was taken to the Kanhangad hospital. However, she died before reaching the hospital.
Aziz Haji, from Nayabazar Cherugoli MA Cottage at Uppali he has alleged that the authorities have refused entry into a Manguluru Hospital on March 23 on account of being a Kasaragod native. Haji was a dialysis patient at the hospital.
