{"id":27000,"date":"2020-06-08T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/old-man-tied-to-hospital-bed-allegedly-over-non-payment-of-bills\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:01:09","slug":"old-man-tied-by-hospital-authority-to-bed-allegedly-over-non-payment-of-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27000","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh | Old Man Tied to Hospital Bed Allegedly Over Non-Payment of Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/old-man-tied-to-hospital-bed-allegedly-over-non-payment-of-bills\">The Quint<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An 80-year-old man was tied to a hospital bed with rope in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Shajapur allegedly over non-payment of the hospital bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking stock of the shocking incident, the District Collector said, &#8220;We\u2019ve sent a team to hospital to investigate the matter. The police probe is on. Report is awaited. Action will be taken accordingly,&#8221; ANI reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gumlet.assettype.com\/thequint%2F2020-06%2F7949167d-1715-4ddb-87dc-a5f58a9fd361%2FEZ5GMB0U4AA_pJ2.jpeg?rect=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;w=320&amp;format=webp&amp;q=70&amp;dpr=3.0\" alt=\"An old man is seen tied to a hospital bed in Madhya Pradesh. His family claimed that they failed to pay the hospital.\"\/><figcaption><em>An old man is seen tied to a hospital bed in Madhya Pradesh. His family claimed that they failed to pay the hospital.<\/em><br \/><em>(Photo: ANI)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In images shared by ANI, the old man can be seen tied to the bed with rope on his leg and hand. His daughter said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe had deposited a bill of Rs 5,000 at the time of admission but when the treatment took a few more days, we did not have the money to pay the bill.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospital, however, has claimed that the man was having convulsions and he was tied so that he could not hurt himself, NDTV reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MP CM Takes Note of the Situation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Minister of the state, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has promised to take strict action against the the Shajapur-based hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0936\u093e\u091c\u093e\u092a\u0941\u0930 \u0915\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0905\u0938\u094d\u092a\u0924\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0935\u0930\u093f\u0937\u094d\u0920 \u0928\u093e\u0917\u0930\u093f\u0915 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0915\u094d\u0930\u0942\u0930\u0924\u092e \u0935\u094d\u092f\u0935\u0939\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u092e\u093e\u092e\u0932\u093e \u0938\u0902\u091c\u094d\u091e\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0906\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0926\u094b\u0937\u093f\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u092c\u0916\u094d\u0936\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u091c\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u0938\u0916\u094d\u0924 \u0938\u0947 \u0938\u0916\u094d\u0924 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0930\u0935\u093e\u0908 \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u0940\u0964<\/p>&mdash; Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChouhanShivraj\/status\/1269274470344085504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/old-man-tied-to-hospital-bed-allegedly-over-non-payment-of-bills\">ANI &amp; NDTV<\/a><\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quint An 80-year-old man was tied to a hospital bed with rope in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Shajapur allegedly over non-payment of the hospital bills. Taking stock of the shocking incident, the District Collector said, &#8220;We\u2019ve sent a team to hospital to investigate the matter. The police probe is on. Report is awaited. Action will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}