A 40-something man named Rajeshkumar walked into Neyyattinkara district hospital in Kerala at 6:30 PM on Thursday with chest pain. Security staff turned him away — no OP ticket, no doctor. He stood in a queue for over half an hour, finally saw a physician, then collapsed and died. Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has ordered an immediate DMO inquiry. The question that lingers: why wasn't a man with a cardiac event triaged the moment he walked in?

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