Indian authorities are launching a probe after a video had gone viral showing a woman purportedly pulling her ailing husband up on a hospital ramp after apparently being denied a stretcher or wheelchair.
Indian media identified the patient as Srinivasa Chary, 45, who was shown being dragged by his wife to a government hospital's first floor for doctor consultation, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Chary was allegedly suffering from symptoms of gastroenteritis, when his wife Sree Vani, 40, brought him to the hospital.
The alleged incident took place at a government hospital in Guntakal, Anantapuramu district, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was not immediately known when the incident took place; the video’s authenticity cannot be immediatley verified.
Officials, however, vowed to launch a probe into the alleged apathy of hospital staff as the video went viral.
Local media, including NDTV and the Times of India, reported that the woman was left with no choice but to drag her husband up a ramp in Guntakal after waiting for more than an hour for the staff or doctors to provide stretcher or wheel-chair to the husband.
Other media reports said hospital staff "denied" either a wheelchair or a stretcher to the ailing man from the ground floor to the emergency ward, located on the first floor.
