66-year-old succumbs to virus, kin allege negligence

Vadodara: The GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri witnessed some anxious moments late on Friday night, when a relative of a 66-year-old positive patient who succumbed to Covid-19, alleged negligence by the hospital authorities.
Daughter of the deceased, who was a resident of Bharuch, even alleged that after giving him ice-cream, doctors had tied the patient to the hospital cot so that he could not make a video call. “They killed my father. They gave him ice-cream. There was no ventilator,” the patient’s daughter kept on claiming while talking to an unknown individual on her cell phone.
However, the hospital authorities refuted the claims.
Administrative nodal officer of the hospital, Dr Sheetal Mistry, however, termed it as an emotional outburst.
Mistry told TOI that the patient was admitted at a hospital in Bharuch and the family had later taken him to a Waghodiya-based hospital after which he was brought to Gotri.
“When a person is suffering from hypoxia, he is kept on bipap ventilator to stabilize him. He was incubated at around 2 pm on Friday. Patients are tied to the cot so that they do not get hurt because of convulsions,” he said. “We are putting all our efforts to save each and every patient. Doctors don’t kill patients,” he added.