Mentally disabled patients found locked in store room in Karnataka hospital, authorities deny allegations

In an incident that has been reported from Mysuru, two mentally disabled patients have been locked away in the store room of a hospital.

Sources said nurses or doctors were not attending to the patients.

The two patients were admitted to the hospital three years ago. The hospital received complaints about the patients from staff and fellow patients and decided to lock them up in a store room.

No food was provided to these patients.

This inhumane treatment has brought the prestigious hospital under scanner. The staff is accused of ill-treating mentally disabled patients.

The hospital though has denied any ill-treatment. The Superintendent of KR Hospital told Bangalore Mirror that the patients were not kept in a store room.

"The patients were not kept in the store room. Actually, ward cleaning was going on and we made these patients sit outside the ward. Some miscreants in the hospital took a video and some photographs of these patients, and circulated them on WhatsApp," the superintendent told Bangalore Mirror.

He reassured that the patients were not treated badly and said that a special ward will be provided for them.