Relatives of patients queuing up to pay the bills at a private hospital in Mumbai ,India. I was there in the morning for a routine blood test. And my thoughts drifted to Avinash Rout (7) who succumbed to dengue after being denied admission in five hospitals in the capital. Hours after his death, his distraught parents committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of the building in which they lived. Forget the regard for their medical duty, this was sheer lack of empathy, that too for a child. Much like #AylanKurdi, #AvinashRout too has left this world because of our lack of humanity.

Relatives of patients queuing up to pay the bills at a private hospital in Mumbai ,India. I was there in the morning for a routine blood test. And my thoughts drifted to Avinash Rout (7) who succumbed to dengue after being denied admission in five hospitals in the capital. Hours after his death, his distraught parents committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of the building in which they lived. Forget the regard for their medical duty, this was sheer lack of empathy, that too for a child. Much like #AvinashRout too has left this world because of our lack of humanity.