Video shows bodies lying near COVID-19 patients; BJP slams BMC
Latching on to the video, BJP legislator Nitesh Ranesaid this shows the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)does not pay attention to the safety of patients.
The video purportedly showed some bodies lying nearCOVID-19 patients undergoing treatment at the Lokmanya TilakMunicipal General Hospital in Sion area of Mumbai.
Rane tagged the video in a tweet on the micro-bloggingsite on Wednesday night.
"The Sion hospital has shown utmost negligence byletting COVID-19 patients sleep among the bodies of those whodied of the same disease. The BMC boasts of being the richestcivic body but pays no attention towards the safety ofpatients," the BJP leader said on Thursday.
He noted that the hospital in Sion mostly getspatients from Dharavi, the biggest slum area in the country.
"Is this how we treat our working class? Suchcarelessness of the medical staff and the Sion hospital couldresult in further spread of coronavirus infection," he said.
As the video stirred a controversy, the hospital'sdean Dr Pramod Ingale said relatives of the those who died ofCOVID-19 are reluctant to take the bodies.
"That is the reason why the bodies were kept thereunattended. We have now removed the bodies and are probing thematter," he said.
Asked why the bodies were not shifted to a mortuary,Ingale said, "There are 15 slots in the hospitals mortuary ofwhich 11 are already filled. If we shift all the bodies to themortuary, it will be a problem for bodies of those who died ofcauses other than COVID-19."
Till Wednesday, Mumbai reported 10,527 COVID-19 casesand 412 deaths. NDGK GK