Probe into Delhi cop’s death at Noida hospital

NOIDA: A probe has been initiated into the death of a Delhi Police official at a Noida hospital, after his family alleged that he contracted Covid due to negligence on part of the hospital staff and lodged a complaint with the UP governor and the chief minister, along with the Medical Council of India. Dharamvir Singh, the Delhi Police sub-inspector, died of a paralytic attack at the hospital on July 2.
According to the deceased cop’s wife Rajesh, her husband was deployed at the office of the northwest district police and admitted to the private hospital in Noida on June 12 after he had complained of chest pain. She has alleged that her husband was first kept in a semi-private ward with a patient displaying Covid symptoms and later shifted to another ward on June 14. And the next day, he underwent an angiography and was suggested a bypass surgery. He also underwent a mandatory Covid test and the results came negative.
Rajesh said though they had soon given their consent to the surgery, the hospital pushed it till June 22, and while the doctors claimed that the procedure was successful, her husband developed lung infection three days later. He died of a paralytic attack on July 2. Additional commissioner of police Love Kumar said the complaint has been forwarded to the DCP (Noida.
Despite repeated attempts, the hospital spokesperson could not be contacted for a comment.