Jamia Millia Islamia student Prahlad Gouro died of dengue on Tuesday, according to family friends. “He was suffering from dengue at the time of admission on Monday. Around 2 pm he died due to dengue with infection in other organs,” said a doctor.
Thirty-four-year-old, Prahlad, a research scholar at Jamia’s Centre of West Asian Studies and native of Odisha, was hospitalised at Sehgal Neo Hospital in Delhi’s Paschim Vihar. More than the death, what left Prahlad’s friends shocked was the hospital bill of around `60,000 out of which the family had already made a payment of `35,000.
Dr Alok Misra, CMO of Shgal Neo Hospital in Paschim Vihar area, said, “We have already received a payment of `35,000 and the family is trying to manage the rest bill amount.”
The body was released by 9.30 pm, said a doctor of the hospital.