Noida: Mad dash to admit sick child ends in death of 5 of family in accident
Hindustan TimesTragedy struck a family after their two-year-old boy, who had a low blood count and needed urgent blood transfusion, was shuttled off from one hospital to another four times on Sunday evening, all the way from Dadri to Noida, only for five members of the family to perish in a late night accident on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. The exact reason for the accident remains unascertained as all five occupants— Hari Mohan’s cousin Aman Singh, 27, Aman Singh’s father Devi Singh, 60, mother Rajkumari Singh, 50, and two aunts Vimlesh Singh, 40, and Kamlesh Singh, 40 -- died in the crash. After travelling till late night with his family -- his cousin, mother, uncle and aunts -- Hari Mohan finally admitted the child to a Noida facility. From Dadri to Noida, we were referred by four hospitals.” “Around 5am, after we reached a hospital in Noida’s Sector 30, we were told that the doctor will come at around 9am, so we have to admit the child,” said Hari Mohan, adding that “I insisted Aman, my mother Vimlesh, and aunts to return home,” he said.