COVID-19: Mumbai man denied admission in hospital assaults staffer

In a shocking incident a 40-year-old man allegedly assaulted a staff of Apex Super Hospital located on LT Road in Borivali (West) after its authority denied admitting his 75-year-old mother, a suspected COVID-19 patient, as no ventilators were available at the hospital.

The staffer identified as 22-year-old Vikas Vishwakarma,  a resident of Borivali. He serves as a receptionist at the hospital. According to the police, the man brought his mother the hospital in an ambulance. The elderly woman told Vishwakarma that she was facing difficulty in breathing.

A doctor examined the woman and asked her son to take her to another hospital as she was critical and the hospital did not had ventilators available. The patient’s son got angry over being denied admission and slapped Vishwakarma.

On Monday, a case was lodged under sections 352 (punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation, 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).