MALAPPURAM: A Covid positive elderly woman died after failing to get a ventilator. The 63-year-old woman identified as Fathima hailing from Purathur died Monday morning. She was admitted at a private hospital in Walancherry three days back after turning positive. There was no ventilator facility in the hospital.

After her condition deteriorated, the doctors directed to shift her to a hospital having ventilator facility. Her relatives searched in the district and nearby districts but could not find a hospital with a vacant ventilator bed. She died this morning after failing to get a ventilator.