From patients sleeping alongside dead bodies to mass burial - Apathy horrors that worsened 2020 suffering Updated Dec 21, 2020 | 16:20 IST
In 2020, multiple incidents of medical apathy were reported from various parts of our country. Check below a list of 10 such incidents. Mass burial of COVID-19 victims in Karnataka’s Ballari [File photo] | Photo Credit: IANS
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Eight COVID-19 victims were ruthlessly thrown into a pit in Karnataka.
A cancer patient, admitted at a hospital in UP’s Agra, failed to realise that rats were nibbling off her toe as she was in agonising pain due to the disease.
A young boy’s body was left in freezer of a mortuary for five days, pending post-mortem examination.