Recently, a friend of filmmaker Nag Ashwini met with an accident.  He was taken to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad.  As fate would have it, there was no one to attend to the severely injured body for three hours because it was a Sunday.  The friend, who is one of the "most talented cameramen in the State", died for want of care!  

Narrating the incident, the 'Mahanati' director has this to say: "My friend's parents had to push the stretcher around themselves in the hospital. At any other hospital, three hours would have saved him (the victim).  My sister worked at the hospital in the past and she says she can imagine. On a Sunday night, why didn't they shift him somewhere else... I don't know; they were in panic..but really..in the capital of a State, why can't we count on a government hospital to rush to save a life?" a pained Nag asks. 

The sad director questions the Minister KTR.  "What can we do, KTR sir, to make sure that the word 'government hospital' need not be synonymous with carelessness and death. My friend was easily one of the best cameramen we have in the State. I don't know whom else to ask, sir. Nobody should die needlessly," the director writes.