So determined was a 25-year-old woman to vote, that she convinced her doctor to discharge her early from hospital, where she was admitted for a serious urinary tract infection (UTI). Her doctor asked her to take proper bed rest for a quick recovery, but the woman went first to the polling centre to cast her vote.

Hetvi Khokhani, an architectural designer who stays with her parents at Samatanagar in Vasai (west), was admitted to the Lilavati hospital on October 11 as she was suffering from UTI. Her condition was so bad that she was admitted to the ICU for five days. She was shifted to a general room when she started recovering. But on Sunday, she requested doctors to discharge her so she could cast her vote.