No ambulance for hours, AMU professor on Life support dies

Mangalore Today News Network

Aligarh, Oct 26, 2016: A senior professor of the Aligarh Muslim University died waiting for an ambulance for over six hours on Tuesday.

Professor D Murthy, 64, who headed the university’s Department of Modern Indian Languages, was a cancer patient. After his condition deteriorated after a surgery on Sunday, doctors in the campus hospital advised that he be shifted to Delhi.

Officials have alleged that an ambulance was not arranged in time because of paperwork.

"An ambulance wasn’t available. There was no coordination within the hospital. What was the need to fill up the form?" said the university’s spokesperson S Peerzada.

Professor Murthy was on a ventilator and every moment was critical, doctors said. He could only be shifted in a specially equipped ambulance.

"Even after we referred him to Delhi, an ambulance was not available for hours," said Mohammad Aslam, the chairman of the Surgery department of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in the university.

The university’s teachers have alleged negligence.

Last month, five doctors of the hospital were charged after a student died of dengue while being treated at the hospital.