Apollo in trouble: 2 die in Agra hospital, relatives allege it was negligence

Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. Apollo Hospital is once again in the news, and once again for the wrong reason. This time it is a hospital of the Apollo group in Agra that has come under the scanner of the police after a newborn child and a young man died allegedly due to non-availability of doctors, who were to arrive from Delhi.

The police have filed a case of murder against the chairperson of the hospital, eliciting an angry response from local medicos, who have asked the Agra administration to allow Indian Medical Association (IMA) to intervene in hospital-related disputes before it s handed over to the police.

Speaking to The Pioneer, Agra Superintendent of Police Gulab Singh said that KK Sharma - a resident of Sahabad area of Hathras district near Agra - had arrived at the Apollo Pankaj Hospital on June 16 with a newborn boy. The infant was suffering from some breathing disorder. KK Sharma has alleged that his son was kept in the hospital's ICU and he had been told that doctors were soon to arrive from Delhi for the baby's treatment.

Singh said Sharma repeatedly asked the hospital management to hasten his child's treatment. However, the doctors did not arrive till the evening of June 17. The next morning, Sharma was informed of the death of his child. He was not even allowed to see who had been treating the infant.

Enraged by the negligence showed by the hospital, Sharma filed an FIR under Section 304-A of the IPC against chairperson of Apollo Pankaj Hospital Ltd Dr Pankaj Mahendru on Sunday.

Sharma said that the hospital staff had claimed that the child was born with a defect in its heart and could not be saved despite treatment. The police have sent the body for post-mortem to ascertain facts.

In the other incident, one Neeraj, who was suffering from brain tumour following died on Tuesday. This raised a fit of allegations from relatives of the accused, who alleged that he had died due to negligence. They also said they had been handed a bill of Rs 1.49 lakh for the treatment.

The youth's relatives blocked the Agra-Mathura National Highway and threw stones towards the hospital, after which the bill was brought down by Rs 50,000 and the body was handed over the family.

Speaking to The Pioneer, Pankaj Mahendru said that both the incidents did not occur due to negligence of doctors but due to natural causes. Later, a meeting was called by the local division of IMA and it was decided that a select group of local doctors would study such cases of alleged negligence by hospitals.

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