The number of covid-19 cases in Maharashtra are increasing rapidly with Mumbai city having the maximum number of cases.
Due to the increasing number of patients the hospitals in the city has run out of beds for severely ill Covid-19 and non covid-19 patients in both public and private hospitals.
In a shocking incident, a 54-year-old businessman suffering from a respiratory tract infection died within hours of queuing up at Nair hospital for a coronavirus test. He did not get a bed at the hospital as he wasn't a confirmed covid-19 patient.
His family tried to obtain his test report from the hospital but after days of waiting the family was “shocked” to learn that the report could not be prepared as the samples got damaged by hospital and had to be discarded.
When contacted, Nair Hospital dean Dr Mohan Joshi blamed the damaged samples on “human error” and did not comment further.