Most of the hospitals said they did not have beds to spare, the woman’s brother claimed.
A 30-YEAR-OLD woman, who was eight months pregnant with her second child and had complained of “breathlessness due to rising blood pressure”, died Friday after she failed to get admission in eight hospitals across Noida in a span of about 12 hours, her family has alleged.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration has ordered a probe into the alleged incident. The woman, a resident of Khora in Ghaziabad, is survived by her husband, who is a private sector employee, and their five-year-old son.
The woman’s brother, Shailendra Kumar, told The Sunday Express that he took his sister Neelam, her husband Vijendar Singh, and another family member to at least six hospitals in his autorickshaw and approached two more in an ambulance they “had to hire since she needed oxygen supply”.
Most of the hospitals said they did not have beds to spare, he claimed.
The hospitals listed by the family included Sharda Hospital, a dedicated Covid facility, which said that the patient was “admitted briefly”, stabilised using a ventilator and referred to another hospital.
Another was Fortis Hospital, which said that Singh “refused resuscitation and ventilation support” and “declined… medical advice to transfer the patient to another hospital” in an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) ambulance. “The patient was taken out of our hospital in an auto. We empathise with the family in their hour of grief,” the hospital said.
Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), where the woman was declared brought dead, described the incident as “absolutely unfortunate” and said the facility was “overburdened with patients”.
