Indian Muslim woman says she lost her unborn baby after hospital accused her of spreading coronavirus

A Muslim woman from India's Jharkand state has said she lost her unborn child after a hospital she had arrived at in a bleeding state asked her to clean up her blood and accused her of spreading the coronavirus, The Indian Express reported.

The 30-year-old woman from Jharkand's Jamshedpur city has described the unfortunate series of events which occurred at the MGM hospital in a letter to the chief minister of Jharkand.

According to the letter: “I was abused on the lines of my religion and was asked to wipe the blood. I could not because I was shivering. I was beaten up with slippers. I was shocked and rushed to a nursing home. There it came out that my child had died."

According to the Indian publication, the state police has "taken cognizance of the incident" and the Jamshedpur superintendent of police has been asked to look into the matter.

Meanwhile, when questioned about the incident, Jharkhand Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh said: “The matter is being inquired into.”

The outbreak of coronavirus in India has triggered a series of attacks against Muslims across the country, with the Indian health ministry hatefully claiming that Muslims are spreading the virus, according to the New York Times.

“Young Muslim men who were passing out food to the poor were assaulted with cricket bats,” said The New York Times in its report.

“Other Muslims have been beaten up, nearly lynched, run out of their neighborhoods or attacked in mosques, branded as virus spreaders,” the paper added, highlighting that Hindu extremists were scapegoating the country’s entire Muslim population for deliberately spreading the virus through what they themselves have termed “corona jihad”.