A private hospital in Gurgaon’s Sector 37 was booked for negligence on Friday following the death of a Covid-19 patient who died after not receiving oxygen, leading to an uproar.
The 44-year-old woman, who died on June 9, was allegedly not provided oxygen by the hospital staff despite her repeated pleas. The deceased was identified as Seema Arora.
Arora’s family had approached district health authorities, who found after an investigation that the hospital is guilty prima facie and recommended police action. A case under section 304A causing death by negligence was registered on Friday at a local police station.
Arora had tested positive on June 3, and on June 5, she made a desperate call to her family from the Covid ward alleging that she was breathless and had been demanding an oxygen cylinder, but nobody paid any attention to her. As her condition deteriorated, Arora pleaded to be shifted to another hospital which her family managed to arrange only by June 9. The family alleged that they were not given any oxygen support in the ambulance even as the patient was being shifted, which led to her death as she reached the other hospital. The police is investigating the matter.
Meanwhile, Haryana reported 780 Covid-19 cases and four deaths on Friday, with the total tally nearing 30,000. The highest number of cases (203) were reported from Faridabad. The district now has the highest number of active cases in the state, with 1,486 patients.
Gurgaon, with 1,162 patients, has brought down its doubling period from four days to 48 days and has an infectivity of around 8 per cent.
Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala’s party JJP has temporarily shut its headquarters in Chandigarh after a cook tested Covid-19 positive. The premises are being sanitised while the cook’s contacts including his family are being tested.
