Probe into death of passenger by ConfirmTicket on 05 September, 2013 - 12:00 PM | ||
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ConfirmTicket | Probe into death of passenger on 05 September, 2013 - 12:00 PM | |
Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Piyush Agarwal on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the death of a passenger at the Shoranur railway station on Friday, allegedly without getting emergency medical help from the nearby Shoranur Railway Hospital.He directed the Chief Medical Superintendent of the Palakkad Railway Division to conduct an inquiry into the incident and submit the report.The passenger, Ashokan (70) of Ayiloor, near Nemmara here, was coming from Kozhikode to Palakkad by the Calicut-Coimbatore passenger train at 7.45 a.m. on Friday, when he developed chest pain. His co-passengers brought him to the platform and informed the railway police who rushed to the railway hospital to bring a doctor. But none of the two doctors on duty there turned up to examine the passenger who struggled for 45 minutes before his death.A constable on duty at the station said the police went to the railway hospital three times and requested the doctors to accompany them as the passenger was in a critical condition. But both the doctors refused to turn up and the patient died on the platform.The railway hospital authorities also did not provide an ambulance to move the body to the mortuary, it was alleged. |