Traffic halts on Chennai's TTK road as Karunanidhi supporters throng outside hospital

Chennai: The influx of politicians, party supporters, well wishers outside Kauvery Hospital, where DMK chief M Karunanidhi has been admitted, continued to increase leading to traffic on the bustling TTK road in Chennai to come to a standstill on Saturday.

Policemen deployed in the area had a difficult time controlling the crowd, while patients, visitors and hospital staff struggled to enter the hospital.

According to reports, a narrow stretch laden with broken stones, between a transformer and the compound wall is the only way to enter and exit the premises. 

“The hospital could have warned us or made provisions for a separate entrance for us,” S Saraswathi whose 11-year-old son is undergoing cancer treatment at the hospital told The Times of India. 

Saraswathi, like many other visitors, had to scale a wall with the help of two police personnel to get inside. 

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Movement of ambulances to and from Kauvery Hospital were also strained and it took an ambulance more than usual time to cover the distance between the hospital and main road.