Gurgaon Hospital refuses to hand over child's body over unpaid dues
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Gurgaon: A private hospital refused to hand over the body of a child, who had fallen off a building, to her mother, a domestic help, until she paid Rs 4.5 lakh in treatment cost, a government official said.
Fortis hospital allowed the body of Nabha, a girl who would have turned three in two months, to be claimed by her mother only after some social workers escalated the matter to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and informed the police, he said.
The hospital has denied the charge and claimed that police formalities caused the delay in handing over the body to mother Ujma, who works as a domestic help and is a widow.
Nabha was admitted to Fortis hospital here on Thursday after she fell off the first floor of her home in Wazirabad, near Sector 52 of Gurgaon.
Her mother Ujma fell unconscious after the accident, some of the social workers who helped her around after the incident told.
Fortis hospital allowed the body of Nabha, a girl who would have turned three in two months, to be claimed by her mother only after some social workers escalated the matter to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and informed the police, he said.
The hospital has denied the charge and claimed that police formalities caused the delay in handing over the body to mother Ujma, who works as a domestic help and is a widow.
Nabha was admitted to Fortis hospital here on Thursday after she fell off the first floor of her home in Wazirabad, near Sector 52 of Gurgaon.
Her mother Ujma fell unconscious after the accident, some of the social workers who helped her around after the incident told.
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