Mumbai: The death of a worker posted at a coronavirus ward in Mumbai’s KEM hospital has sparked huge protests by medical staff and other employees outside the state-run facility. Hundreds of doctors, paramedics and others were seen protesting in masks and other protective gear on Tuesday.
The worker, a daily wager who had allegedly been denied leave though he had been unwell for four days, died on Sunday night. Whether he died of COVID-19 will be known only after his test results are out. But his body has been at the hospital mortuary since last night.
His family should be compensated with a job and financial help, the protesting employees have demanded.
But the doctors, nurses, attendants and Class 4 employees have united to draw attention to a frightening crisis of virus cases and bodies becoming difficult for hospitals to handle.
Disturbing images emerged from KEM hospital of body bags on stretchers in corridors even as the protests peaked outside.
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