Shashank Shekhar / Mid Day
New Delhi, May 7: In two separate incidents highlighting the callousness of the city hospitals, a harried parent was bashed up by doctors watching an IPL match after he insisted that they attend to his unconscious, asthmatic child at the Hedgewar Arogya Sansthan in Anand Vihar, and the seven-month pregnant wife of an MNC executive was beaten up by the security guards of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences yesterday.
Amit Oberoi, a businessman from Shahadra, had rushed to the Hedgewar Arogya Sansthan with his one-and-half-year-old son Arjun who had fallen unconscious after an asthmatic attack.
According to Amit, there were five doctors in the emergency ward of the hospital and they were all sitting and watching an IPL match. Amit asked the doctors to attend to his son but they did not react to his appeal.
Amit, who was accompanied by his wife Shalu, repeatedly appealed to them that as his son was critical, they should attend to him as soon as possible. Angered by his insistence, the doctors started abusing him and allegedly bashed him up badly.
Amit has also alleged that the police are not taking any action against the doctors and are trying to compromise the case.
In another incident, a seven-month pregnant woman, Meenal, who had come to visit an ailing relative at AIIMS with her husband Feroz, was beaten up by security guards at the hospital.
The couple, residents of Khanpur, were carrying only one entry pass and were stopped by the security guards outside the emergency ward. According to Feroz, one of the guards put his hand on his pregnant wife's belly and pushed her.
When he protested against this, the guards, who were allegedly drunk, called five others and badly manhandled the couple. Feroz's brother Gaurav was also beaten up.
The family alleged that the security guards were accompanied by two policemen. When the couple tried to register a case, cops at the police post of the hospital kept them waiting for more than an hour.
Finally, the police registered a case and are looking for the security guards. Feroz is an assistant vice-president in an MNC. The hospital administration were not available to comment.