Due to the nationwide lockdown, most of India’s states are struggling with their fight against COVID-19 and there are cities that are worst affected due to the pandemic. Uttar Pradesh’ Agra has become a city with a chain of problems from the supply of essential commodities to providing medical facilities to both non-coronavirus and coronavirus patients.
A PIL has been filed in regard to the failure of medical facilities in the district Agra, Uttar Pradesh for the patient suffering from other medical problems except for coronavirus.
Advocate Ankur Gogia and Advocate Shivam Sharma came forward with PIL to bring attention to the high court about the ongoing issue which is being faced by the non-COVID-19 patients.
Advocate Shivam Sharma, in conversation with Newsd said that the private hospitals in the city are turning away from patients and are asking them to get the coronavirus test report and that is costing them their life.
He further mentioned about the incidents that took place and costed the lives of non-COVID patients as they were turned away from the private hospitals.
Sharma stated the facts about the patients who lost their lives and added that on April 23, 2020, a 65-year-old man was denied dialysis until he gets his report for Coronavirus. After all of it, he fell sick, he didn’t even get an ambulance and was turned away from 3 hospitals and within 48 hours he died.
Later, when he passed away his test report came and he was negative for Coronavirus.
Advocate Sharma told us about the second incident which took place on April 27 and said that another incident took place in SN Medical College, Agra in which a man identified as Mohit Sharma was seen begging in the camera to the doctors to admit his severely ill mother but due to the fear of covid19 they did not admit her and asked her to get the coronavirus test, which later came negative after the death of the old woman.
On April 21, Agra city Mayor Naveen Jain wrote a letter to CM Yogi Adityanath and warned the state government about the district’s situation and urged to take up stringent measures to stop the spread of coronavirus in the city, stating that “Agra would become the next Wuhan” otherwise.
Later, the Agra district administration decided to register FIRs against private hospitals for not admitting patients. Agra has become the first district to take up such action against private hospitals.
