The nursing staff of AIIMS Jodhpur has been sporting black arm bands to protest alleged denial of treatment to the pregnant wife of a senior nursing officer at the hospital as they hailed from a coronavirus hotspot zone in the city. Senior Nursing officer of AIIMS, Naresh Kumar Swami, had taken his 11 weeks pregnant wife to the emergency department of AIIMS on May 17. “My wife had been profusely bleeding. So being an employee of AIIMS, I rushed my wife to the Emergency. But the doctor from the gynaecology department refused to take her for treatment after learning that we live in the corona hotspot zone of the city”, he alleged. Next day he managed treatment at a private hospital. But it was too late by then and the doctor at the hospital had to terminate the pregnancy.
— source newsclick.in | 28 May 2020