New Delhi: Environmental objector Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali Angmo, has approached the Delhi High Magistrate seeking an urgent hearing to indulge the objector to be shifted from Safdarjung Hospital to a private medical facility of the family's nomination and raised serious questions well-nigh the functioning of Safdarjung Hospital.
What did Gitanjali Angmo say?
Gitanjali Angmo on Sunday said she has moved the Delhi High Magistrate seeking permission to shift Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung Hospital to a private facility.
The activist's wife stated that she has lost faith in the Safdarjung Hospital and has filed a petition in the Delhi High Magistrate seeking an firsthand hearing on the matter.
Gitanjali personal that the hospital informed her that Sonam Wangchuk's potassium level had dropped to 2.9, describing it as a serious and life-threatening condition. However, the public health message issued by the hospital did not share the very icon and only stated that the potassium level was decreasing. She moreover personal that an self-sustaining laboratory test found the potassium level to be 3.5, which is within normal limits.
I have lost faith in Safdarjung Government Hospital.
The hospital told us @Wangchuk66’s potassium had dropped to 2.9, describing it as viperous and life-threatening. Yet, in its public health bulletin, it conveniently omitted the very number, referring only to "decreasing…
— Gitanjali J Angmo (@GitanjaliAngmo) July 19, 2026How many policemen are outside the ward?
Gitanjali so-called that despite repeated requests, the hospital wardship is not permitting Sonam Wangchuk to be discharged or transferred to a private hospital of his choice. According to her, virtually 30 policemen are deployed outside the ward and over 100 throughout the hospital premises, restricting the movement. She described this as "illegal detention," not medical care.
What is Gitanjali demanding?
Gitanjali stated that if anything untoward happens to Sonam Wangchuk, the hospital wardship and the government will be solely responsible. She explained that this is why she has approached the Delhi High Magistrate and sought an urgent hearing in the case. The petition requests the magistrate to indulge Sonam Wangchuk to be transferred to a private hospital of his nomination surpassing his health deteriorates further.
She stated that no family should be forced to fight the system for the right to segregate a hospital for their loved one's treatment.
