The patient walked all the way to Shastrinagar civic hospital in Dombivli on Thursday after the hospital staff allegedly asked him to walk to the hospital, a distance of 3km away, as an ambulance was not available.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has now recalled the 'buses' she had sent for migrants in Uttar Pradesh after blaming Yogi Adityanath government of 'playing politics'.
In March, the Delhi Waqf Board had declared that it will make the 'Jadeed Qurustan' near Millennium Park a dedicated burial ground for Muslim coronavirus patients. However, the VHP has alleged that the area they had demarcated for the graveyard belongs to the park and not the Waqf Board.
The hospital clarified that the family was duly informed about the patient's death and municipal authorities had performed the cremation as per due procedure.
Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari traveled for over a month to understand and get to the bottom of the ground realities of the migrant crisis. In conversation with OpIndia, Bhandari talks about how the governments fared and what more they could do to mitigate the crisis.