SRINAGAR, Aug. 3 -- Even as the authorities claim to provide better medical care to the patients at valley hospitals, the alleged misbehavior of officials at GB Pant hospital here with the attendants has put a question mark over the claims. Shah Jehangir, an attendant whose baby is admitted at the hospital had been asked to conduct ultrasonography of the minor patient by the doctors.

However, Jehangir said that soon after he reached the ultrasonography section at the hospital, he asked the officials to conduct the test as advised by the doctor. However, he alleged that the officials misbehaved with him as they were getting ready to leave the hospital at 3:00 pm.

"I urged them to conduct the ultrasonography of my child but they refused a...