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Swine flu suspect treated like a corpse
Updated On: 26 August, 2009 10:02 AM IST | | B V Shiva Shankar
Everyone, including the doctors, refused to go near Sarojamma and left her in a room meant for dead bodies. She returned to the general ward only after testing negative
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Everyone, including the doctors, refused to go near Sarojamma and left her in a room meant for dead bodies. She returned to the general ward only after testing negative
Doctors at KIMS were so scared of contracting H1N1 that they dumped a suspect in a room meant for corpses and then in the HIV ward.
Their defence? "We are also human."
Sarojamma, 52, from Tiptur, was admitted to Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) near V V Puram last Wednesday. She had fever and when doctors suspected swine flu, the hospital staff stopped coming to her. Even the doctors stayed away.
Shankar, Sarojamma's attendant, was told that the patient would have to be isolated and Sarojamma was next seen in a room adjacent to the mortuary.
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