Woman Says She Was Molested At Hospital As Husband Struggled With COVID, Shares Emotional Video

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The woman's husband was hospitalized after they traveled to celebrate Holi
He pleaded for oxygen and water but was refused both, according to the woman
She also said a hospital worker had pulled her clothes and put his hand on her waist
The woman shared her ordeal in a painful video that has gone viral

An emotional video, in which a woman claims she was molested by a hospital worker as her COVID-positive husband lay dying nearby, has gone viral.

The video, which went viral in India Tuesday, shows the heartbroken woman wailing and appealing to people not to trust hospitals, reported Hindustan Times.

According to the woman, whose identity has been withheld as per Indian laws, said she and her husband came to the Indian state of Bihar from the neighboring city of Noida in March for the Holi festival. However, her husband fell ill on April 11.

Although initial COVID-19 tests came negative, they went to get a CT scan, which revealed an infection in her husband's lungs. A day later, her husband and his mother were admitted to a private hospital in Bihar.

The hospital worker refused to attend to her husband, the woman claimed. He begged for treatment and water, but the personnel did not heed his plea.

The woman was talking to her husband when she realized someone was tugging at her clothes. "My mother started shouting. I turned around. The attendant was smiling with his hand on my waist. I couldn't say anything because I was afraid," she said as per India Today.

She alleged that the man, identified as Jyothi Kumar, returned and told her, "Don't worry. I will take care."

Even the doctors refused to attend to her husband as he struggled for oxygen, the woman also claimed, The Times of India said in a report. Instead, they referred him to another hospital in the town of Mayaganj.

In the video, she also shares that the situation was no better in the new hospital, where her pleas for oxygen were ignored.

She later moved him to a hospital in Patna, where the oxygen supply was cut off. She was then forced to buy it on the black market.

Although she tried to get him to the capital city of Delhi via an air ambulance, his condition deteriorated. He eventually succumbed to the disease.

The incident has come to the attention of the government which ordered an inquiry into the incident. A three-member team has been formed to probe the case of the alleged sexual harassment.