Ex-serviceman and transporter Jogender Singh Patial (58) of Berry Mian village, near here, died unattended by any doctor at the Regional Hospital here on Saturday after having waited for 15 minutes for treatment.
He died there even though his family and neighbours had rushed him to the hospital at 11 am on Saturday.
Milap Chand, former vice-president of the Berry Mian gram panchayat and brother of the deceased, told mediapersons that all efforts of relatives and attendants of the deceased to bring a doctor to examine him in time failed. They even failed to get a stretcher for him.
While scores of people accompanied by patients waited anxiously for doctors, there was no doctor in the OPD and the trauma centre.
Milap Chand said the deceased had complained of chest pain and was suspected to have had a heart attack. He was rushed to the hospital, but died there without getting timely medical aid.
A woman doctor came to check him after about 15 minutes' wait, but it was too late as he had already died.
He said they were going to complain against the hospital to the higher authorities regarding the mismanagement in the hospital and would demand action and a high-level probe in the matter. He also urged Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur to conduct a probe into the incident.
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