The State-run Gandhi Hospital was dragged into a controversy on Monday again when an abandoned dead body was found on the hospital premises.
A few patients who noticed the body alleged that it was left around for three days outside the emergency ward and the administration did not respond to their complaints of stench. However, the hospital administration removed the body on Monday morning and maintained that the death was recent.
“As soon as the security staff intimated the administration about the body, it was removed. We made enquiries from people around and learnt that one person had abandoned it. It is not three-day old,” a spokesperson for the State’s health administration claimed but could not say when the death took place.
Later in the day, reports of a patient being neglected began to do the rounds on the social media suggesting that a diabetic patient was availing treatment on a wheelchair for three days as he was not given a bed. The hospital administration clarified that a delay in his treatment was due to uncontrolled sugar levels and he was operated on Monday morning. They said one of the patient’s legs had to be amputated following infection caused by uncontrolled diabetes, and denied allegations of negligence on part of the hospital.