Thiruvananthapuram: Botched surgeries, deaths due to alleged medical negligence, medical equipment shortage and even sexual assaults. Thus goes the issues plaguing the Kerala health sector over the last few years.

Despite loss of human lives and causing permanent disabilities to many, the state government often terms each incident as isolated ones.

The latest victim of the alleged medical negligence is 48-year-old autorickshaw driver Venu from Kollam. Despite being hospitalised on October 31 with chest pain, Venu died on November 5 night at the Thiruvananthapuram medical college hospital.

In an audio message sent by Venu to his friend from the hospital bed, he could be heard saying that he did not even get the treatment that a dog could have received.

The hospital authorities were just

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