Muskan Bhatia, Jan. 7 -- Moving door-to-door across hospitals from Bihar and Kolkata, Saif Alam, a 29-year-old man from Jharkhand, had lost hope of his survival just a few months after he first suffered a simple pain in his back and stomach. Clueless about his condition, which deteriorated in a matter of days, his pain turned into breathing difficulty, leaving Alam and his family with sleepless nights for weeks and months.
Doctors at the private hospitals across Ranchi and Kolkata began treatments for chest congestion, prescribed CT Scans, and surgery to empty the fluid accumulated in his thoracic region, but neither went ahead with the operative procedure, considering the precarious condition of Alam.
Distraught after being refused treat...