Gujarat: Allegations against Apollo Hospital for continuing ventilator on a dead patient

Bhavesh Patel, a relative of the woman told the TOI, “the deceased Sangita Patel, a resident of Rakhial village of Dehgam, had delivered twins through caesarean surgery on September 16 at Poojan Hospital in Naroda area. "After the delivery, her condition started deteriorating, so the doctor at the hospital called an ambulance from Apollo hospital and insisted that we take our patient there."

The patient was admitted in Apollo Hospital for three days and was kept on ventilator as her condition worsened.

"For three-odd days, Sangita remained admitted in Apollo hospital. On Monday, we asked the hospital authority to discharge our patient, as the expensive treatment was beyond our means, and we wanted to take her to some government hospital. They kept refusing to discharge her for around six hours," said Patel.

Later on the patient was discharged by the hospital on Monday after six hours and she was taken to a government hospital in Naroda, GCS medical hospital which declared the patient brought dead for six to seven hours.

A team of doctors from the hospital also carried out post mortem on the deceased.