Tension prevailed at the ESI Hospital here on Thursday after family members of a woman, who died, alleged negligence by the hospital authorities.
Later, the woman's relatives along with locals blocked the Mayfair-Jaydev Vihar road demanding stringent action against the guilty hospital staffs. They also placed the woman's dead body on the road and staged a dharna in front of the hospital gate. The family members of the woman alleged that doctors did not treat her properly which led to her death.
After being informed, police and local administrative officials rushed to the spot and pacified the agitators by assuring to look into their demands.
Sources said a resident of Salia Sahi Ahalya Bhanja was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday morning for treatment of asthma, but allegedly doctors did not attend to her till afternoon. Later at night, she died.
"When I asked the hospital staff in the evening about the reason behind the delay in referring her to any other hospital, they misbehaved with us," a relative of Bhanja alleged. However, the hospital authorities are yet to comment on the matter.