A pall of gloom descended on the maternal house of Hina Fathima, a victim of violence perpetrated by her husband a fortnight ago, at the Victoria Hospital in Bangalore on Tuesday. 
Hina had been shifted to to the Victoria Hospital from the K R Hospital on Saturday, on the advice of doctors there.
Hina’s kin alleged that the doctors at K R Hospital had been forcing them to shift the victim to the Victoria Hospital right from day one, citing lack of necessary facilities there.
 “That she was made to sleep on the hospital corridor on the day she was shifted is a testimony to the apathy of the hospital authorities, making her vulnerable to infections,” they said. The hospital authorities were also not ready to part with Hina’s case documents, Hina’s aunt Shaheen Taj told Deccan Herald. This made it difficult for them to seek medical care elsewhere. “What use is the government hospital when it cannot give proper treatment to poor people?” questioned Taj.
“Hina had received only 35 per cent burns and timely treatment at a private hospital could have saved her. But the fact that her people couldn’t afford the hefty costs was the major hurdle,” said Tasmeen.
Hina’s cousin Tasmeen expressed disappointment with wrong information being out in the press that no one had gone to receive Hina’s body, while the reality was that both her parents were with Hina in Bangalore and had received the body and accompanied it on the way to Mysore.
This had deeply hurt their feelings. The doctors at the Victoria Hospital had planned to take up surgery after the wounds she had sustained had healed, but she breathed her last on Tuesday. Tasmeen said they had contacted the State Women’s Commission member Parvati Thimmappa in regard to the incident. Recalling the ghastly act on Hina, her relatives said that her husband had stubbed burning cigarettes into her eyes, after making her drink acid mixed with liquor and pouring the same all over body, especially on the stomach.
 “It is the children, aged seven, six and two, who will suffer as they’ll stand to lose Hina’s motherly love,” said Tasmeen.
They will now be taken care of by Hina’s relatives. “The accused is now happily sitting in jail, and who knows he may even go scot free if police help him out,” Taj added.
 After this incident, it is up to the civil society to ensure that Hina hasn’t died a futile death, by seeing to it that no woman suffers this fate, either at the hands of her spouse or at the hospital where she is treated, the relatives felt.