MEERUT, May 10 -- After a video from the emergency ward of the district hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly went viral on social media on Saturday purportedly showing an elderly man taking his seriously ill wife away on a handcart, deputy CM Brajesh Pathak ordered the director general, medical health, UP, to conduct a probe into the incident even as Bareilly DM Avinash Singh on Sunday also formed a panel to investigate the matter.

"A senior official from the directorate general of health be sent to the site to conduct a thorough investigation and to initiate action against those found guilty," Pathak said.

The DG has also been instructed to ensure that should it be deemed necessary to take disciplinary action against any individual at ...