The family members of a 49-year-old Eastern CoalFields Limited employee who died during the course of treatment at Asian Dwarkadas Jalan Super speciality Hospital, on Saturday staged a demonstration at the hospital campus alleging medical negligence.

The protesting members claimed that the deceased, Sanjay Singh of Kumbardubi area of Dhanbad, was treated as a Covid patient before the test results that lead to his death. The hospital administration also charged Rs 1.5 lakh for five days of treatment.

A team of officers from Dhanbad Sadar Police pacified the family members of the deceased assuring them of a fair probe of the incident.

One of the family members of Sanjay Singh, said “We had admitted our patient in the hospital on April 26 and hospital authorities claimed that his Covid test would be conducted on April 28 but the Covid test was not conducted and he was administered Remedesivir without the test confirming him to be affected with Covid due to which he died.”

“When we sought the Covid report from the hospital after the death of the patient, we were not provided with the report and instead the doctors fled the hospital confirming our doubt,” said the relative.

“We are not going to spare the hospital administration and will lodge an FIR against the hospital administration holding them accountable for murder,” fumed the relative.

This is the third such incident of allegation of medical negligence by family members at a private hospital.

On April 26, three persons died due to Covid in a private hospital, Pragati Nursing Home, after which the family members of all three gathered at the hospital charging medical negligence.

On April 14, a 55-year-old Covid patient also died during the course of treatment after which the family members of the deceased staged a demonstration outside the hospital.