Updated On: 20 September, 2020 10:00 AM IST | Rajkot | mid-day online correspondent
As the video went viral, the hospital administration said that the medical workers were restraining the patient as he was trying to hurt himself

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A coronavirus patient, who was recently seen in a viral video allegedly being thrashed by the hospital staff in the Civil Hospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot, died.
The patient in the video has been identified as 38-year-old Prabhashankar Paatil. He was shifted to the state government-run PDU hospital on September 8 after undergoing a kidney procedure at a multispecialty hospital in the city where he was found to be COVID-19 positive.