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.
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.
