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Covid crisis: Apathy kills patient at Patna's NMCH, watch ground report

As Covid cases surge in Bihar, India Today Ankit Tyagi brings this ground report from the state capital that exposes how the healthcare system in the state is crumbling and the facility is in a total mess. People have to run from pillar to post to get their patients admitted to the hospital.

Watch how the hospital staff's apathy killed a Covid patient at Patna's NMCH Hospital.

The family of a patient was asked to get to an admission slip and only then he will be admitted. And when the family got the admission slip, then they couldn't find doctors and the patient died waiting in the vehicle he brought to the hospital.

A few days back junior doctors were on strike and now class 4 employees have gone on strike after one of their colleagues was beaten up.

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