Faridabad: In a government hospital in Faridabad, Haryana, a father kept wandering around with the dead body of his 7-year-old daughter in his lap. He kept standing at the gate of the hospital with the dead body, but no staff member told him that a free ambulance was available to take the body from the hospital.
Not only this, no auto driver was ready to take the dead body of the girl. The man kept roaming around carrying the dead body of his daughter. Later, he took the body home in an auto.
The victim, Pankaj Mandal, told me that he is originally from the Goda district of Jharkhand. For the last year, he has been living in a rented house near Patel Chowk in Faridabad with his wife and four children, a daughter and three sons. On Wednesday morning at 3 o’clock, daughter Shabnam complained of vomiting and diarrhoea. After this, he took her to a nearby Bengali doctor for treatment.
There the doctor gave injections and medicine to his daughter, but the medicines did not give relief to his daughter at all. Pankaj said that the Bengali doctor had given an injection to his daughter on an empty stomach. Due to this, his daughter’s health started deteriorating. By evening, his daughter Shabnam’s condition kept getting worse.
After this, he took Shabnam to Faridabad’s Badshah Khan Civil Hospital for treatment at around 7:30 pm. The doctors declared his daughter dead as soon as they saw her. Although during this time the hospital staff filled out a form after his daughter’s death and gave it to him, no one informed him that a free ambulance was provided to him from the hospital to his home to take the body.
He called an auto driver he knew and asked him to come to the hospital, but after a long time, he brought his daughter’s body outside the hospital to take it in another auto. No auto driver was ready to take the daughter’s body.
Pankaj said that if the hospital staff had informed him, he would not have brought his daughter’s body outside the hospital in this way.
When Dr Vikas Goyal, who is in charge of the PMO of the hospital, was contacted, he also agreed that the hospital staff should have informed the relatives of the deceased girl about getting free hearse (ambulance). He will take information in this matter and take appropriate action.