Wheelchair denial at Kovai hospital: Dean calls it staged, rejects charge

A day after two temporary staff members at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital were suspended for allegedly demanding a bribe for a free wheelchair, which led to an 85-year-old patient with a diabetic foot ulcer being dragged by his son, the hospital management claimed the incident was staged and shared CCTV footage.

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Dean Dr M Geethanjali said the patient's attendant was asked to wait for a wheelchair to shift him from the first floor of the super-specialty block to the general surgery department in another block. "Refusing to accept this, the attendant forcibly removed the walker from the patient and dragged him. The attendant then had an autorickshaw driver record the incident to claim that they were denied a wheelchair," she said.