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By Vineet Khare
image captionKriti Hospital is in Gurugram, a satellite city of capital Delhi
In Delhi in April, six people died alone on a hospital ward, left there by doctors in the midst of the country s devastating second wave of Covid-19.
Video of the bodies left on the ward went viral, but the headlines soon moved on, leaving a void of information around what happened that night and a group of loved ones bound by tragedy.
In the footage, a man can be heard talking in the background as the camera phone pans around the room. Neither the doctor, nor the chemist is here. There is no-one at the reception, he says, as relatives go from bed to bed, trying to revive loved ones.
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The tragic scene took place at the Kriti Hospital, a private clinic near New Delhi, last week after the families of the patients were told that the hospital was running out of oxygen, Blic writes. Relatives, who paid more than a thousand dollars a day for a bed, said they came to the hospital, but found the patients abandoned and the intensive care unit locked. When the door was finally opened, it was established that the patients had died.
6 patients died in Kriti Hospital Gurgaon due to lack of oxygen on April 30, Director of the hospital says he spoke to every Govt official about oxygen shortage but no one responded.
Doctors Abandon COVID-19 Hospital In India; 6 Bodies Found Inside Locked ICU
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Hospital authorities said they fear an attack from angry relatives
An investigation was launched against the hospital
Amid a record surge in coronavirus cases in India, a horrifying video that went viral online Wednesday showed relatives of COVID-19 patients entering a hospital, seemingly abandoned by doctors and other medical staff, only to find six bodies lying inside a locked ICU.
The incident happened in a hospital in the northern Indian city of Gurgaon on Friday, reported NDTV.
The chilling footage shows people running around wards and nurses stations, only to find empty desks. Neither the doctor is here, nor the chemist. no one at the reception. There is not even a guard, a voice can be heard in the background.
The harrowing Covid-related narratives in the country have plumbed new depths with an allegation that the staff of a Gurgaon hospital abandoned their posts after oxygen ran out and left several patients to die on the intervening night of April 30 and May 1.
“Around 10pm on April 30, the lights were switched off for about 45 minutes. When the lights came on, there was no sign of any staff. Some people barged into the ICU and found their relatives dead,” said Mrityunjay Pathak, whose brother Naveen was a patient at Kriti Hospital in Sector 56.
The 38-year-old Naveen, an employee of Union Bank of India, was being treated for complications related to the coronavirus. He is no more.
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