Via Indian Express: Three die of lepto in Surat, toll reaches 10. Excerpt:
Three farm labourers from Surat district have died of leptospirosis while three others have tested positive for the disease that has claimed 10 lives in the district so far this year.
The deceased have been identified as Yogesh Rathod (35), Shanta Gamit (55) and Govind Patel (40). All three were brought to New Civil Hospital where they died Friday evening.
Hospital sources said they had earlier undergone treatment in private clinics in their villages and were brought to the hospital in Surat only a few days ago when their condition had worsened.So three farm labourers, helping to feed a billion people, get their moment of fame in their obituaries. Their country's health system is set up to impoverish their families still more in a private clinic before passing them on to a public hospital to die in. This is a country that can afford to build nuclear weapons and launch rockets into space, but can't find the money for cheap rubber boots—never mind an adequate public health system.
