A coronavirus patient’s body was left on the pavement outside a hospital in Bhopal on Monday night after a tragic to-and-fro between hospitals. Security footage accessed by NDTV shows two ambulance workers in PPE suits taking the body out in a stretcher, leaving the patient on the pavement and driving off with the stretcher.
A magistrate has been asked to inquire into the case involving a power distribution company employee who was admitted to hospital two weeks ago with a kidney condition. In the last few days, he had developed breathing trouble and was suspected to have pneumonia. He tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday evening.
The man was being treated at the People’s Hospital in Bhopal but after his COVID-19 test, he was to be moved to Chirayu hospital, Bhopal’s nodal centre for the virus.
His son told NDTV that his samples were collected on Sunday and his report returned positive on Monday.
He had been unwell since January and he was admitted to People’s hospital on June 23.
The patient’s son insists he was alive on Monday morning when an ambulance picked him up to be taken from People’s hospital to Chirayu Medical College. He questioned why the ambulance returned.
