A shocking video has been released showing a woman dying at King`s County Hospital in Brooklyn,New York.
The surveillance footage shows Esmin Green in the emergency room of the hospital on June 19.
The 49-year old had been waiting there for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat and fell face down on the floor.
She was dead by the time someone on the medical staff finally came to her aid.
The footage shows the Green`s collapse barely caused a reaction other patients waiting a few feet away do not got to ger aid while security guards and a member of the hospital staff noticed her prone body at least three times, but made no visible attempt to see if she needs help.
One guard doesn`t even leave his chair,rolling it around a corner to stare at the body,then rolling away a few moments later.
Green,who had been involuntarily committed the previous morning,and had waited overnight for a bed, stopped moving about half an hour after she had collapsed.
The Psychiatric Unit at King`s County Hospital had already been subjected of complaints by advocates for the mentally ill.
Green`s medical records raised the possibility that someone might have tried to cover the circumstances of the death.
Green was born in Jamaica,and the city has agreed to fly her body home for burial.