TB patient died due to lack of proper treatment: Kin

Amritsar, May 10

A local family has accused Government Medical College here of not providing proper treatment to a TB patient who died two days ago. The family complained that the hospital even did not provide an ambulance to shift the body to the mortuary.

Sunny Gill, a relative of victim Raj Kumar, said, “We, along with an employee of the hospital, shifted the body to the mortuary on a stretcher. The employee asked us to arrange ice slabs, but we could not as it was midnight.” The mortuary did not have any refrigerator to keep the body and these were kept on concrete slabs.

Sunny said by the time they went to the mortuary, a body was already there which had started emitting foul smell. “When we reached the hospital nobody among the staff was ready to come near the patient. The patient died because of lack of treatment,” he said, adding that due to the coronavirus threat, medical staff were not even ready to take care of general patients.

Ravinder Hans, a member of the district grievances cell, said the issue would be raised with officials concerned. — tns