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Doctors attacked in Delhi hospital after Covid patient dies
New Delhi/IBNS: Doctors at a Delhi hospital were attacked on Tuesday morning by relatives of a Covid patient who died in the emergency ward because the hospital had no ICU beds available.
An unspecified number of doctors and staff of Delhi's Apollo hospital were injured in the attack by the relatives of the deceased woman, who was 67.
The incident took place between 8 and 10 am. The police arrived an hour later.
"We got a call around 9 am and reached to find an old lady who was there had died in the morning. There were some arguments by her relatives and a scuffle... there were no injuries and no complaint was received from relatives or the hospital," a police official was quoted by news agency ANI.
Shocking visuals of the incident have gone viral where a group of men could be seen fighting just inside the hospital gates.
Apollo hospital, Sarita vihar Patient's family attacked on Doctors. @ArvindKejriwal#Delhi #COVIDEmergency2021 #ArvindKejariwal pic.twitter.com/b7MmsGWpwE
— Manish Gupta (@Manish_Rep) April 27, 2021
The second wave of the pandemic has left the health infrastructure in Delhi overwhelmed.
Several Covid patients in Delhi are succumbing to the virus on roads or suffering due to the shortage of beds and adequate oxygen.
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