UP Woman Claims Harassment, Neglect At Bihar Hospitals Treating Husband

In a heart-breaking 12-minute video appeal, the wife alleged doctors and hospital staff refused to attend to her husband, even to change dirty and soiled sheets

A woman trying to get her husband treated for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Bihar's Bhagalpur has accused a staff member of sexual harassment and doctors at the city's Glocal Hospital and two others - in Mayaganj and Patna - of negligence leading to his death. In a heart-breaking 12-minute video appeal, the woman alleged doctors and staff at all three hospitals refused to attend to her husband, even to change dirty and soiled sheets on his bed. She also accused staff at the Bhagalpur hospital of wasting half a vial of Remdesivir - the hugely expensive and difficult-to-procure antiviral drug used in the treatment of COVID-19. "My husband and I stay in Noida. We came to Bihar for Holi... it was a family get-together. On April 9 he fell ill... had high fever. We tested for coronavirus twice, but it was negative. While we were waiting for RT-PCR test results a Noida doctor told us to get a chest CT," she said.