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Unable to pay bribe for wheelchair, patient uses toy tricycle

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Hyderabad: The state-run Gandhi Hospital authorities on Friday constituted a committee to probe into the allegations that a patient was denied wheelchair for being unable to pay “bribes.”
In absence of the wheelchair, the patient, with severe mobility problems, has been left moving around in the hospital for treatment, on a kids’ tricycle of his son, that his wife brings to the hospital while visiting it with him.
S Raju in his 40s had been visiting the hospital for a follow-up treatment for the burn injuries that he had suffered due to electrical shock last August.
His wife Santoshi alleged as she did not have money to pay “tips” to the ward-boys, he was not being given wheelchairs and had to use a tricycle to move around in the hospital.
Santoshi said they had been coming to the hospital for the treatment and the doctors had told her that her husband, a painter, needs to undergo surgery. (PTI)

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