Denied ambulance, family of heart patient forced to take him to hospital on stretcher in Karnataka’s Hassan

Karnataka News: The family members requested the hospital for an ambulance, the authorities told that there was no ambulance available as it was attending to some other patient.
Karnataka: In yet another incident of alleged medical apathy in Karnataka, the relatives of a patient, suffering from a heart ailment, were forced to shift him from one hospital to another by pushing him on a stretcher on the road in the middle of the night while it was drizzling.
The incident occurred in Hassan of Karnataka on Thursday night and the video of the incident has gone viral on social media on Friday.
As per reports, the patient was brought to the Sanjeevani Hospital at Salagame Road in Hassan after his health condition deteriorated. The doctors at the hospital conducted ECG and confirmed that the man has suffered a heart attack. The doctors later said that the patient needed better treatment and referred him to another hospital.
The family members requested the hospital for an ambulance, the authorities told that there was no ambulance available as it was attending to some other patient. Later, the family said that they tried contacting the government-run 108 ambulance service but despite repeated requests, they couldn’t get an ambulance.
Without any alternative, the family members of the patient placed him on a stretcher and pulled him on the road in the middle of the road while it was drizzling for around one kilometre to reach a private hospital nearby. Later, the family managed to get a vehicle and admitted the patient to a hospital in Bengaluru where he is undergoing treatment now, added reports.
Meanwhile, the Sanjeevani Hospital authorities refuted the allegations that they denied the ambulance and said that as the hospital ambulance was away attending another patient, they could not help the concerned patient.
Last month, a man from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh was forced to carry his son's dead body on a two-wheeler after the ambulance drivers at Sri Venkateswara Ramnarayan Ruia Government General (RUIA) hospital allegedly demanded a huge amount from him.
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