The managing director and the nursing staff of a private hospital in Rajasthan were on May 20 booked under culpable homicide, cheating and criminal conspiracy charges over the death of COVID-19 patient, who was allegedly administered a glucose injection instead of remdesivir.

This comes a day after the Kota District Collector ordered a probe into the incident that took place last week. The Circle Inspector, Jawahar Nagar police station, said a case was lodged under sections 304(A), 420 and 120 (B) of the IPC against the nursing staff and the managing director of Kota Heart Hospital. He said the case was registered based on a complaint lodged by a resident of the Dakaniya railway station area of the city.

The man alleged that his COVID-positive mother was administered a glucose injection by the nursing staff at the hospital instead of remdesivir, even though he had arranged all medicines prescribed to her, leading to her death on May 14, the inspector said. The hospital management had earlier lodged a case accusing its nursing staff of theft and black marketing of medicines of the facility, the police official said.