For more than seven hours, Farooq Hussain, 13, has been lying in a crowded corridor of India's most prestigious hospital in New Delhi, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), waiting for a doctor to treat him for dengue fever.
Farooq was brought to the capital by his parents, landless labourers from a remote village in Bihar, in eastern India. It took them one-and-a-half days by train to reach AIMS, the one government hospital that every poor Indian has heard about.
When Farooq's fever refused to go down and his gums began bleeding - a sign of the dreaded stage known as dengue haemorrhagic fever - his father, Altaf Hussain, took him to the primary health centre in the nearest town.
It was deserted and locked. Nearby residents told him the staff rarely came to the clinic.
By now sick with worry about his only child, Mr Hussain took the boy to a government hospital in Patna, the nearest city. 'At Patna, they said they couldn't treat him because his condition was serious. They told me to bring him to AIMS but he's become much worse during the long train ride,' Mr Hussain said as his wife placed another cold compress on her son's forehead within the packed confines of the hospital.
In the overflowing corridors, wards, car park and entrance of AIMS, there is pandemonium. Doctors struggle to treat the hundreds of suspected dengue cases flooding the hospital from all over the country, in a disease outbreak that has exposed the shabbiness of India's public health system.