Just days after a Borivli hospital let a biker die over a Rs 9,000 shortfall in fee, the civic-run Sion Hospital left a 48-year-old accident victim bleeding outside its trauma ward for an entire night.

Doctors at the hospital did not even touch the victim, much less treat him, until nearly 16 hours after he fell off a train at Vidyavihar on Sunday, ensuring that his stretcher was soaked in blood and his condition was critical by the time they got around to paying any attention to him yesterday morning.