Patients at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital Struggle with Water Logging after Rain

Patient and families were seen struggling with a waterlogged corridor of the Safdarjung Hospital in a video that went viral on social media on Wednesday. In the clip, captured after heavy rainfall on Tuesday in the capital, some people were seen walking barefoot, mid-knee deep water, while others were seen taking support to maintain their balance.

This was the case at one of the biggest government hospitals in the capital city.

Officials claim that the incident happened because of construction work, however, they said that the health services were not affected.

“The waterlogging was caused due to an ongoing construction in front of the H-Block and got cleared within some time,” said the concerned official to the national media. He is referring to the passage between the OPD and the new emergency block at the ground floor, which was majorly affected.

But the incident has drawn criticism from the political arena. “This is Delhi’s premium hospital. Safdarjung patients, instead of getting recovered, might leave the hospital with a new illness,” was the comment by one of the residents of Delhi on the social media platform X.

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