Ahmedabad: ‘Horror videos’ expose neglect in hospital

AHMEDABAD: A video purportedly showing a woman dead on the commode of a toilet of kidney ward of the newly set up Covid-19 hospital in IKDRC hospital on Civil hospital campus in the Asarwa area has surfaced on Sunday with local groups alleging callousness on part of the hospital authority.
Apart from this video of an unknown middle-aged woman, a video showing another elderly woman suffering from diarrhoea lying in a pool of blood on her bed also surfaced. This woman succumbed to Covid-19 on Sunday afternoon and her family was still struggling to get her dead body.
Khadia-Jamalpur MLA, Imran Khedawala, who sent the video which he got from another patient in the hospital, said, “The woman had gone to toilet and she did not come out even after four hours. One of my friends, whose relative was admitted in the Corona hospital, called me up and informed about this apprehending that the woman might have died.”
He added, “I called up office bearers of the hospital who went there and found her body on the commode. This is horrific death occurred just because of callousness of the Civil Hospital authorities. A patient went to toilet and she did not come out for four hours, and they didn’t even care about what happened to her.”
Apart from this, an elderly woman Shakri Patni, 58, was seen bleeding in another video. Her son Naresh Patni, a railway employee, and her husband Shankar Patni, 63, along with two other family members were diagnosed Corona positive and admitted to Civil Hospital on April 24.
Shankar died on April 25. Naresh and two other family members were discharged after recovery from Covid-19, but Naresh’s mother was still admitted due to her worsening condition.
“We were taking care of her and we found on Saturday night that she had been lying in blood for around three hours. On Sunday, we came to know that she died at around 1pm but we did not get her body even after eight hours,” Naresh said.