KADAPA: A 55-year-old from Railway Kodu suffered cardiac arrest and breathed her last after her family failed to get medicines due to lack of change. She was undergoing treatment at Ruia hospital in Tirupati on Friday night. The family members said that they could not get small tender to purchase the medicines.
According to the victim's son P Prasad, his mother P Ramanamma suffered cardiac arrest on Friday morning and she was rushed to SVIMS in Tirupati for treatment but the doctors referred her to Ruia hospital.
The family members exchanged Rs 4,000 from the bank but the new currency notes got exhausted for transportation and medicines. As her condition deteriorated, the doctors prescribed some medicines and asked the family members to purchase them urgently.
"I purchased some medicines from the pharmacy at the Ruia hospital. But a few medicines were unavailable and I had to go to other medical shops outside the hospital premises. The medical shops refused to accept the old notes.
Though some of my friends arranged for new notes and I purchased the medicines but by that time it was too late. My mother died as the medicines were not supplied within the crucial time," he cried.