Human rights activist and BJP leader Srikant Padhi has moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), seeking cancellation of the licences of private Apollo, AMRI and KIMS Hospitals for allegedly denying admission to a patient, Narsingha Kundu, leading to his death in an ambulance at Bhubaneswar.
Kundu, a 76-year-old cloth trader from Brahmapur, following a brain stroke, had been taken to the three hospitals in Bhubaneswar on July 13, 2020, but all of them refused to admit him on the plea that he was form a corona- affected hotspot area.
Due to lack of timely treatment, he died same day in an ambulance in which he had carried to Bhubaneswar.
Padhi too demanded adequate compensation for the next kin of the deceased.
Padhi too filed a similar petition before the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC), seeking compensation for the mother of a Plus Three student, who allegedly committed suicide on the railway line near Huma in Ganjam district on July 13 after being denied treatment by the MKCG Medical College and Hospital.
The deceased was identified as D Mohan Reddy (19) of Nandanapalli under the Ganjam police station. His father and elder brother had a died a year back. His mother is a daily worker.