At closed Max hospital, man asks: If child dies, will Delhi government take responsibility?

New Delhi, Delhi, India

The closure of the Max hospital at Shalimar Bagh has severely inconvenienced its patients.

The hospital has been allowed to continue treating existing patients but is not allowed to take in new ones. 

People visiting the out-patient department are being told to go elsewhere. 

A relative of one such patient lashed out at the Delhi government on Sunday. 

He said he had been coming to Max, Shalimar Bagh for the past five months with his sister-in-law. 

His sister-in-law he said is pregnant. 

But on Saturday, he said, they were turned away.  

He added that he had come to Max on Saturday because a gyanecologist was unable to hear his sister-in-law's foetus' heartbeat. 

There have been other similar media report. Of patient trying to access essential services like dialysis being told to go elsewhere.

The Delhi government had cancelled the hospital's licence after it incorrectly declared a newborn dead. 

Premature newborn twins -- a boy and a girl -- had been declared dead on on November 30. 

The twins were handed over to their parents in plastic bags. 

On the way to the crematorium however, the parents realised that the boy was still alive. 

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The boy however also died later.