Watch: Woman made to mop floor soiled by ailing son in MP hospital
An elderly woman in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly forced to mop a hospital floor soiled by her ailing son. The incident has sparked a political controversy regarding sanitation standards and hospital management in the state.
Why it matters
The incident exposes systemic failures in public healthcare infrastructure and the treatment of vulnerable patients in government facilities.
BHOPAL: An elderly woman was allegedly made to clean the floor her ailing son had soiled at Damoh district hospital, where she had taken him for treatment.A video of the incident went viral on social media on Sunday night, setting off a political row over sanitation in Madhya Pradesh’s government hospitals.The incident reportedly took place on Saturday. Halki Bai, 58, a resident of Simariya village in the Tejgarh area, had brought her son, who was suffering from diarrhoea, to the hospital at night.After he soiled the floor, the nurse on duty allegedly handed her a mop and made her clean it herself. In the video, the woman is seen mopping the floor.
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