KOLKATA: Dusk was turning to night when TOI saw Champarani Bairagi sitting with her eight-month-old baby in front of the emergency ward of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Saturday. Her son had high fever and was vomiting continuously. She and her husband had been waiting for six hours for a doctor to take a look at the child, but all the junior medics - who man the emergency - were busy gheraoing the principal. After a five-hour road trip from Bankura's Bhedua village to Kolkata, and having their hopes shattered at one of the state's best referral hospitals,...
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