80-yr-old Covid positive woman abandoned by kin at hospital, dies in Rajasthan

JAISALMER: The family of an 80-year-old Covid-positive woman abandoned her at a hospital in Barmer on Sunday evening. When the hospital staff called her son, he refused to identify her.
The woman was brought to the hospital in a serious condition and died on Monday morning. She was left by her son at the emergency ward in Barmer on Sunday evening, after she tested positive.
The medical staff called her son but he refused to identify the woman. After five hours, her son-in-law from the village came and took care of her. The woman died 12 hours later on Monday morning. The incident has raised many ethical questions and came as a rude shock to many.
Male nurse from government hospital Vijay Singh said that on Sunday evening, the ward boy brought a woman on a trolley. Doctors and nursing staff, looking at her serious condition, started the treatment immediately.
The hospital staff called her family members but her sons refused to identify her. She died at 10am on Monday and her son was informed about it, who later came to the hospital.
Sukhbir Singh, the son-in-law of the deceased, said that when his mother-in-law was found positive, her son left her at the hospital in a serious condition and left. After around five hours, he got the information about it and came there to take care of her.