PROBE ORDERED INTO J&K COVID PATIENT’S DEATH

JAMMU: Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of a 65-year-old Covid-19 patient after her relatives alleged medical negligence by doctors during her treatment.

Poonch District Magistrate Inder Jeet ordered the inquiry and asked the inquiry officer, Additional Deputy Commissioner Basharat Hussain, to submit his report within seven days, officials said. The DM said a video went viral on social media after the woman, a resident of Mangnar village of Haveli Tehsil, succumbed to Covid-19 at Poonch district hospital on Friday with her relatives accusing the hospital authorities of negligence in handling the case.