A 45-year-old corona-infected woman, who was allegedlygang-raped by 3 employees of a private hospital in Patna, died on Wednesday.
The deceased's daughter claimed that her mother wasadmitted on May 17 in a prominent private hospital.
"She had symptoms of corona and hence we hadadmitted her in that private hospital. Her health condition was good. Shewalked into the hospital on May 17," the daughter said.
On the same day, she was sexually assaulted by threepersons inside the hospital premises. My mother had informed me about theincident. Since then her health deteriorated. I spoke to my relatives and thewomen's wing of the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), the victim's daughter said.
"The hospital administration in the meanwhileshifted her on to a ventilator and took my signature on a form. The doctorssaid that her health had deteriorated and if she was not shifted on to aventilator, it would be life-threatening for her," she said.
"I suspect that the doctors in the hospitalintubated her in the neck so that she would be unable to give her statement tothe police. Now, they have declared her dead on Wednesday," she said.
ML Khan, duty magistrate of Patna, said: "We havereceived a complaint from the deceased's daughter against the hospitaladministration. The names of the accused are not mentioned in her complaint. Wehave sent the body for postmortem to ascertain sexual assault."
"The hospital administration declared her dead dueto corona infection. Further investigation is on," Khan said.