Zee Media Bureau/Ritesh K Srivastava
New Delhi: In yet another shocking case of negligence by a leading private hospital in Delhi, the body of a new-born girl child was thrown into the garbage dump after she died of some infection in the early hours of Monday.
According to reports, the shameful incident took place at the Chanan Devi Hospital in Janakpuri where the newly-born baby girl was admitted yesterday for treatment after she developed some infection.
As per reports, the baby girl died late last night and then the hospital authorities informed her parents and asked them to complete certain formalities in order to claim her dead body.
Also, during the entire course of the girl`s treatment, her family was kept in the dark as to what kind of treatment was been given to the child.
Already unable to come to terms with the child`s death, what came as another big shock for the family when they found that her dead body was not kept in the mortuary but dumped in the backyard of the hospital along with biological wastes.
Even when the family protested over the alleged mistreatment by the hospital authorities, no senior doctor came to their rescue.
It was only after the team of Zee Media reached the hospital to report the incident, the director of the hospital, M Lal admitted the gross negligence committed by the hospital staff.
Meanwhile, a doctor, who could not be unidentified, also put the blame on the hospital supervisor who was the in-charge last night.
According to reports, the bereaved family has lodged an FIR at the Janakpuri Police Station and the local police has begun its investigation into the case.
Ironically, Satyendra Jain, the newly-appointed Delhi Health Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal led AAP government, today shocked reporters by saying, “The hospital in question is a private hospital hence the state government can not directly intervene in the matter.”
However, when contacted by the Zee Media team, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal assured that he has sought details of the incident and will take appropriate action in this regard.
So far, neither the hospital authorities nor any senior leader from the ruling AAP party, has assured the bereaved family of proper action against those guilty.
It would be interesting to see when AAP, which claims to be championing the aam aadmi`s causes, takes some strict disciplinary action against the hospital.
