Ranchi: In yet another case of poor facilities in hospitals across the country, a patient was served meal on the floor by a hospital in Jharkhand capital Ranchi.
The visuals captured by the the newspaper Dainik Bhaskar at the state’s biggest government hospital, the Ranchi Institute of Medical Sciences, the patient is seen eating food from the floor.

Palmati Devi, her arms wrapped in bandage, ate her meal of rice, dal and vegetables that ward boys served on the floor on Wednesday.

According to a report in NDTV, the patient at the orthopaedic ward, Palmati Devi didn’t have her own plate and had asked for one, but was rudely told off by the kitchen staff who said there were none at the large hospital that has an annual budget of Rs. 300 crore.

“Action will be taken against the guilty,” a hospital official told NDTV.