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Mumbai: Sion Hospital Dean Removed After Dead Bodies Seen Lying On Beds Near Covid-19 Patients
Swarajya Staff
May 09, 2020, 02:29 PM | Updated 02:29 PM IST
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The shocking video showing Covid-19 patients surrounded by dead bodies at the LTMG Sion Hospital has led to the removal of hospital Dean Pramod Ingle from his post, official sources said here on Saturday (9 May).
"Yes.. He has been transferred," a top official of BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said, requesting anonymity.
The reins of the prestigious hospital -- which is one of the major Covid-19 treatment facilities in the city -- has been handed over to Ramesh Bharmal, former Dean of BYL Nair Hospital, who is likely to assume charge today.
The decision is said to have been taken late on Friday, reportedly based on the tentative findings of an enquiry into the incident when around half-a-dozen bodies were shown lying on beds around Covid-19 patients, allegedly in the Sion Hospital three days ago.
Maharashtra BJP legislator Nitesh N. Rane on Wednesday (6 May) posted a video purportedly showing Covid-19 patients sleeping among the dead in a Mumbai hospital.
The chilling videos, which also sparked off a huge chain reaction on social media, apparently show a Covid-19 treatment ward in the Sion Hospital where at least half a dozen dead bodies are lying on beds next to the living patients undergoing treatment there.
In Sion hospital..patients r sleeping next to dead bodies!!!
— nitesh rane (@NiteshNRane) May 6, 2020
This is the extreme..what kind of administration is this!
Very very shameful!! @mybmc pic.twitter.com/NZmuiUMfSW
Following a massive furore over the macabre video expose, Mayor Kishori Pednekar had visited the hospital and ordered a probe into the lapses.
Late on Friday, the state government had transferred the BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi and appointed senior IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal as the new chief of Asia's biggest and India's richest civic body.
The shake-ups came with Mumbai emerging as the worst Covid-19 hotspot notching a total of 462 deaths besides 12,142 patients, the highest in the country.
With IANS Inputs
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