Mumbai: 74-yr-old tested -ve, was to be discharged

Nisar Javedchand (74) was a retired accountant. He had

tested

negative for Covid-19 on March 23 and was even moved out of the ICU into a regular ward. “My father-in-law was a cancer patient and had recently fallen down. So, a steel plate had to be fixed into his leg. He could not walk or move on his own and required support to even get up from bed. He was admitted on March 13 after testing positive for Covid-19. He was recovering and was to be discharged in a day or two,” said Tushar Shah, his son-in-law.

Shah said he was very weak as his cancer was detected 8 years ago. “The patients who could move ran towards to the terrace and the others who were too old and weak

died

. The hospital management did not take care of the patients in this hour of crisis,” he said.

Javedchand was rushed to Mulund’s M T Agarwal Hospital where he was declared dead around 3:45am on Friday.

The body was sent to the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital for an autopsy.

“We had to put the body in an ambulance on our own at M T Agarwal Hospital. He had tested

negative

for Covid so a post-mortem was done. There was no help from the hospital authorities at all. Had they taken care, he would have survived. We had not managed to find any beds in any other hospital in Mulund, so we had to admit him at

Sunrise Hospital

in Bhandup,” Shah said.tnn