Dehradun: Representatives from several city NGOs protested outside Government Doon Medical College Hospital (GDMCH) on Friday over allegations that the hospital had denied treatment to a rape survivor and swapped babies.Talking to TOI, Sushil Kumar from Uttarakhand Nav Nirman Sena, a social organisation, said that several people had complained against “mismanagement at the hospital”. A police inquiry is ongoing against the hospital staff after a 4-year-old rape survivor from Tehri was allegedly made to wait for over half an hour on Tuesday and her family told to get an FIR registered first. Chief medical superintendent of the hospital Dr K K Tamta meanwhile said that “the rape survivor was not denied admission and the media had misrepresented the issue.”Earlier this week, a woman had alleged that her newborn son was swapped with a girl child. The Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (USCPCR) had on Thursday ordered the hospital to conduct DNA test of the babies.Meanwhile, Manish Kala, a social activist who protested at the hospital on Friday alleged that a staffer had thrown an entry slip on a pregnant woman’s face when she asked how long it would take to get ultrasound done as she was tired of standing in a queue. “When this is the behaviour of the hospital staff with expecting mothers, imagine how they would behave with other patients,” said Kala.

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