Faridabad, Sept 29: Insects were found crawling on the bodies of unattended patients in the Unknown Ward of the only government-run hospital in Faridabad on Wednesday, an NGO activist pointed out to the visiting India TV team.
There was not a single nurse, safai karmachari or a doctor to look after the five patients, including two women, who were lying on their beds unattended at the Badhshah Khan Hospital.
Principal Medical Officer O P Mehta however claimed there were two safai karmacharis, nurses, surgeons and orthopaedic surgeons assigned to this particular ward.
Lajpat Rai Madan, an NGO activist alongwith other volunteers took care of the unattended patients in the ward. This ward is earmarked for those patients who are found abandoned on the streets and brought to the hospital.
Several patients had no clothes on their bodies. The principal medical officer said, his administration had got the new building only five months back.
