The KEM hospital in Mumbai has been stretched to the limit due to the increase in virus cases.
Mumbai:
The death of a worker stationed in the coronavirus department of the KEM hospital in Mumbai sparked huge protests from medical staff and other employees outside the public hospital. Hundreds of doctors, paramedics and others were seen demonstrating with masks and other protective equipment.
The worker, who was said to have been denied leave while sick for four days, died on Sunday evening. If he died of COVID-19 will be known after the publication of his test results.
His family should be compensated with employment and financial assistance, demanded protest workers.
His body has been in the hospital morgue since last night.
Protest personnel also highlighted disturbing images of body bags on stretchers in the hospital hallways.
The bodies were transferred to the first floor of the hospital, they said, because the morgue on the ground floor could no longer accommodate. The first floor houses a clinical laboratory.
The KEM hospital, run by the civic body of Mumbai BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, has been taken to the extreme due to the increase in virus cases.
