Amidst Chennai's worst flood, the author's terminally ill father struggled to obtain care and dignity from a private hospital that asked them to vacate their flooded ward without an alternate plan. This poem lays bare the quiet violence of deprioritizing the dying.
Sindhu Nila works as a Public health Researcher, program manager, and Phd research scholar at KEM Hospital Research Centre in Pune. She has more than a decade of experience in working with non profits in the tribal, rural, and urban slum areas in Maharashtra.
