new delhi precious time was lost in a battle between hospital authorities and the local police in shalimar bagh over admitting an accident victim on sunday night the victim is now fighting for life at safdarjung hospitalthe unidentified victim was hit by a vehicle while he was travelling on his motorcycle on ring road at shalimar bagh as he lay bleeding initially no one came to his rescue around 845 pm one dinesh katpal who was going to his mukherjee nagar home from his watch showroom in rajouri garden with three friends stopped to help the victim i saw a man bleeding profusely on the road and a big crowd from the nearby slum surrounding him so i put him in my car and took him to indian hospital nearby at ag block katpal said he added that once they reached the hospital the staff brought a wheelchair instead of a stretcher and asked katpal to deposit rs 40000 as the victim needed surgery immediately i told them i was only a passerby to this the hospital told me to take the patient elsewhere and pushed me out in the meantime a crowd had gathered outside and they got agitated one of them pushed the wheelchair into the door and the glass smashed said katpal the police arrived 15 minutes later this hospital has a history of such incidents every 10 days we get a complaint against it about demanding money or not attending to patients on sunday night i told its owner dr rajesh singh that i would ensure that his hospital was taken to task for negligence the staff got aggressive and tried to hit and stop me from entering the hospital so we took ward boy ramesh and guard bhanu pratap into custody said si satyendra dhull who was accused by the hospital authorities of beating up their staff dhull said two months ago an accident victim was taken to the hospital and charged rs 1000 for ambulance service and then sent to esi hospital in another instance a drunk canteen boy tried to administer cpr to a heart patient he claimeddr singh however said it was actually the police and the people who brought in the victim who beat up the hospital staff the people in the innova dumped the victim at the hospital and tried to run away they were drunk and so were the policemen when our guards tried to stop them from leaving one of the passengers of the innova took out a gun and fired in the air he managed to run away but we caught hold of the other three about 20 policemen came 15 minutes later and started beating up our staff we had done all that we could to stabilise the victim said singh he added that three of his staffers shiv kumar a guard kamal jha the ambulance driver and ravi kumar a sweeper were admitted in the icu dcp north west nc bundela said we have registered