KDMC CHIEF ORDERS PROBE AFTER PATIENT MADE TO WALK

day after a 26-year-old Covid patient complained that he had to walk 3km to reach Shastrinagar civic hospital in Dombivli, Kalyan-dombivli civic commissioner Vijay Suryavanshi has ordered a probe into the incident.

The patient had alleged that the hospital staff asked him to come on his own as there was no ambulance available. Suhasini Badekar, chief medical officer of the hospital had denied that they asked him to come walking.

“Yesterday, I saw a video

The hospital said that the man would need an ICU bed which was not available. So, they waited outside the hospital with the patient.

“My father’s condition was worsening. He was outside the hospital on a stretcher. Around 11.30pm, when we checked with the hospital, they asked us to take of a Covid patient walking to the hospital. He has complained that he called up the hospital, but was not provided with an ambulance. I have asked the deputy commissioner to probe and take action,” said Suryavanshi.

He said the civic body has a system to track ambulances. “Whenever someone tests positive, the nearest ambulance is made available, so the patient should have waited. We had not received any such complaint before this,” said Suryavanshi.

him to Kalsekar hospital at Mumbra where an ICU bed is available. But, when a doctor checked him, he found that my father had passed away,” said the son.

He added that the ordeal did not stop there as the hospital refused to give a death certificate, saying his father had died outside

IN APRIL