Four hospital staffers were suspended and an inquiry was ordered after a viral video from the Kushinagar district hospital's emergency ward showed a severely injured patient lying unconscious with no one around and a dog licking blood from the floor.
Chief Medical Superintendent Dr Satendra Kumar Verma said on Thursday that action was taken against four staff members.
“Two sweepers and two ward boys were suspended in connection with the incident,” he said.
“The patient was brought by the UP government ambulance service. He had very severe injuries on the head. He was given a bed. Then three-four other patients came so the doctor and the pharmacist went away. It was found that the dog had entered the ward.”
The patient in the video shot on the night of Tuesday was identified as Bittu (24), a resident of a village under Kushinagar's Jatah Bazaar police station. He is battling for his life at the Gorakhpur medical college hospital where he was referred to, officials said.
“He was brought to the hospital after he met with a road accident. Because he was unconscious, it could not be known how the accident happened,” an official said.
The inquiry is being conducted by District Magistrate Devi Dayal Verma, according to the officials.
The incident comes at a time when the state government is claiming to be bringing in radical changes in the healthcare facilities with the introduction of a Live Emergency Monitoring System.
Meanwhile, the Congress re-tweeted the video and said it exposed the state of affairs “beyond advertisements”.
“A person injured in a road accident was lying on the floor of the district hospital. The dog was licking his blood scattered all around. But there was no one to take care of him. No doctor, no compounder. Beyond advertisements worth crores, this is the truth of the government systems of UP under the rule of Yogi Adityanath,” the party wrote on Twitter.