Elderly patients discharged from Wenlock found stranded

Mangaluru: Four non-Covid-19 patients, who were discharged from Wenlock Hospital, were found near Kankanady Market. The picture of these helpless senior citizens sitting inside a bus shelter went viral. On receiving this information, the Dakshina Kannada district administration sent a team immediately, and made arrangements to shift them to ESI Hospital.
Many organisations and politicians have been demanding that the government make alternative arrangements for poor patients, who were depending only on Wenlock Hospital in the city, which has been converted into a designated Covid-19 hospital. All patients undergoing treatment at Wenlock Hospital were either discharged or shifted to private hospitals, after the 172-year-old hospital was converted into a Covid-19 hospital.
These four patients were also undergoing treatment at Wenlock Hospital, before it was converted into a Covid-19 hospital. While many patients were discharged and sent home, the four of them from Uppinangady, Farangipet, Talapady and Puttur were shifted to a private hospital, since they were in need of further treatment.
However, on Thursday they were dropped near Kankanady Market in a vehicle by unknown people. Following this, autorickshaw drivers and local residents helped them, by providing them food and bedsheets.
Meanwhile, journalists in the city sent their pictures sitting inside a bus shelter to deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh. On receiving the information, the DC immediately sent a team of officials to shift them to ESI Hospital. The DC said all the necessary arrangements will be made for their treatment.