MUZAFFARNAGAR: A video purportedly showing staff at a private nursing home in Muzaffarnagar refusing to treat a patient from a minority-dominated area has earned the ire of netizens.
In the clip which went viral on Thursday, the staff at a prominent clinic can be heard claiming that they have instructions not to treat patients from Khalapur — a minority-dominated area. As netizens called out the facility for discrimination on religious grounds, the doctor told TOI that the only directions he had issued to the staff were to seek
Covid-19 certificates
from patients coming from
containment zones
. Khalapur has been declared a containment zone.
“I have been treating patients regardless of what community they belong to. I had only asked staff to ensure that those hailing from containment zones should first get Covid-19 certificates from
the district hospital
,” he said.
District chief medical officer (CMO),
Parveen Kumar Chopra
, said he was aware of the video that was widely shared but no formal complaint had been filed in the matter.
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