Reports of sexual harassment and callousness of hospital staff from one of the worst affected states Bihar. Allegedly, the woman was getting her husband treated at a private hospital in Bhagalpur, where a staff member harassed her sexually.
She has also accused doctors at two more hospitals, in Patna and Mayaganj for refusing to attend her husband.
As per a report by NDTV, the woman in a twelve-minute video allegedly appeal that the doctors and the staff at all three hospitals refused to change the soiled sheets on the husband’s bed.
“My husband and I stay in Noida. We came to Bihar for Holi, it was a family get-together. On April 9, he fell ill… had a high fever. We tested for coronavirus twice, but it was negative. While we were waiting for RT-PCR test results, a Noida doctor told us to get a chest CT,” said the woman.
We admitted them, my mother and husband, to the ICU but there was so much negligence. Doctors used to come and go in minutes, attendants were missing and refused to give the medicines.
“My mother was in better condition but after a point, my husband couldn’t speak. He’d signal for water, but nobody gave him any,” she added, further.
There was a man Jyoti Kumar, who was an attendant at Glocal Hospital. I requested him to help to give my husband clean bedsheets.
“He said he would help but when I was talking to my husband, my dupatta was yanked from behind, I turned around he was smiling with his hand on my waist. I snatched the dupatta back but couldn’t say anything because I was afraid,’ My husband and mother are here, If I say anything, they will do something to them.”
It has emerged that Glocal Hospital has suspended the accused employee after local government officials visited the hospital in order to inquire into the matter. The woman had also accused the staff of Glocal Hospital of wasting half a vial of the Remdesivir, the antiviral drug which is so hard to procure.
The woman broke down in the video and barely able to hold her emotions. She alleged that at the Bhagalpur Government Hospital in Mayaganj, the doctors refused to give her husband oxygen, despite her begging for it.
And in Patna, she accused the staff at the city’s Rajeshwar Hospital of negligence, despite an alarming fall in his oxygen levels. After this stabilized, the staff cut his oxygen supply and she had to buy oxygen cylinders from the black market.
The negligence has led to my husband’s death.