THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bystanders of patients at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College are expected to perform dual duty. Apart from taking care of their close ones, the bystanders also need to possess the strength to push wheelchairs and trolleys! If you expect the attendants or trolley pullers to come to your aid, you are mistaken.

Sindhu, the wife of Venu, who died after complaining about the delay in treatment at the medical college the other day, raised the same allegations. When she asked for help to push her husband's wheelchair, the attendants turned her away, saying, "This is not our job." It is a regular sight for patients and their companions to get stuck in this way at the medical college.

But the authorities claim that these are just isolated incidents that occur when the number o

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