The management of a private hospital in Shajapur district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh tied an 80-year-old man to a bed with ropes for failing to pay the bill.
The district administration and the state chief minister took notice and ordered an inquiry into the matter after a video of private hospital management tying an elderly man with ropes and chains went viral on social media.
According to the Indian newspaper, the viral video showed the 80-year-old man tied to a private hospital bed. The video identified the elderly man, who was tied to a hospital bed, as a resident of Rajgarh district of the state, who was admitted to the hospital due to abdominal pain.
Meanwhile, the patient’s daughter said they had first deposited ₹6,000 as fee, and later another ₹5,000. “We told the hospital we can’t pay any further and asked them to remove the catheter so that we can take him home,” she said.
In order to secure his discharge, and get the case file, she was told another ₹11,270 would have to be paid. “They didn’t give us the file, so when we started leaving the hospital, and father was coming behind me, they grabbed him, took him inside and strapped him to the bed,” she said.
Describing the act “inhuman” and “barbaric”, former Chief Minister Kamal Nath tweeted, “During this corona pandemic, inhuman behaviour, fleecing and arbitrariness is continuing in several private hospitals of the State. There is no one to listen to the public. The government should take strict action over the incident.”
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