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Seven-year-old Diya was admitted to Bangur Hospital, a government hospital, with fever, loose motions and vomiting. Rather than diagnosing the disease, the doctors there allegedly declared it a case of dengue summarily.
They neither cared to take her blood sample for test, nor did they go for ultrasonography even as the child was complaining of stomach pain and vomiting. Consequently, the little girl went into “septic shock” and eventually died. Resigning to the fate, a distraught father Subhankar Acharya called her death a price he had paid for being poor. He said, “The doctors here deprive treatment at the hospital is the fate of people from down-trodden. Why the negligence of the hospital will cost the life of 7 year old?”
On the complaint of negligence from Acharya an inquiry was instituted under the supervision of Super Somnath Mukhopadhay. Residents of No. 115 ward’s Trinamul Counsiller Ratna Sur, the area where Diya lived, wrote a letter to state Health Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya blaming doctors for her death.
According to sources in the Bangur Hospital, on the day Diya was admitted to the hospital, at 2.45 pm she was given saline and antibiotics. But, neither blood test nor ultrasonography was done, even though there exists within the premises of the hospital a diagnostic center build under private-public partnership.
Next day’s entry of bed ticket mentioned that Diya had a “septic shock”. However, the doctors did not deem it fit to carry out an examination.
As per the bed ticket, at 8.30 pm tests should have been done to ascertain whether the girl was suffering from dengue. Even then, no tests were done. At 9.45 pm she breathed her last.
Subhankar Bhattacharya said, “After my daughter was admitted to the hospital, she was laughing, roaming around and expressed her desire to watch cartoon on TV. Had the doctors examined her she could have survived.”
Dr Tapan Maity, a medical practitioner, wondered how the case could turn fatal in such a short span of time. He said in the morning when the patients were given saline, antacid and anti-biotic, her condition was not critical. He claimed he had advised sonography verbally.
But, sonography could not be carried out as there was long queue for it. Assuming that hers is not an emergency case, she was given an advanced date of two days.
Tapan Maity said, “When the treatment was on to recover her from the shock, technicians tried to take her blood samples but failed as her vein was dried.”
Somnath Mukhopadhay, super of the hospital regretted that no tests were done on the child under critical condition. He assured strict action against whosoever is found guilty by the investigation.”
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Seven-year-old Diya was admitted to Bangur Hospital, a government hospital, with fever, loose motions and vomiting. Rather than diagnosing the disease, the doctors there allegedly declared it a case of dengue summarily.
They neither cared to take her blood sample for test, nor did they go for ultrasonography even as the child was complaining of stomach pain and vomiting. Consequently, the little girl went into “septic shock” and eventually died. Resigning to the fate, a distraught father Subhankar Acharya called her death a price he had paid for being poor. He said, “The doctors here deprive treatment at the hospital is the fate of people from down-trodden. Why the negligence of the hospital will cost the life of 7 year old?”
On the complaint of negligence from Acharya an inquiry was instituted under the supervision of Super Somnath Mukhopadhay. Residents of No. 115 ward’s Trinamul Counsiller Ratna Sur, the area where Diya lived, wrote a letter to state Health Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya blaming doctors for her death.
According to sources in the Bangur Hospital, on the day Diya was admitted to the hospital, at 2.45 pm she was given saline and antibiotics. But, neither blood test nor ultrasonography was done, even though there exists within the premises of the hospital a diagnostic center build under private-public partnership.
Next day’s entry of bed ticket mentioned that Diya had a “septic shock”. However, the doctors did not deem it fit to carry out an examination.
As per the bed ticket, at 8.30 pm tests should have been done to ascertain whether the girl was suffering from dengue. Even then, no tests were done. At 9.45 pm she breathed her last.
Subhankar Bhattacharya said, “After my daughter was admitted to the hospital, she was laughing, roaming around and expressed her desire to watch cartoon on TV. Had the doctors examined her she could have survived.”
Dr Tapan Maity, a medical practitioner, wondered how the case could turn fatal in such a short span of time. He said in the morning when the patients were given saline, antacid and anti-biotic, her condition was not critical. He claimed he had advised sonography verbally.
But, sonography could not be carried out as there was long queue for it. Assuming that hers is not an emergency case, she was given an advanced date of two days.
Tapan Maity said, “When the treatment was on to recover her from the shock, technicians tried to take her blood samples but failed as her vein was dried.”
Somnath Mukhopadhay, super of the hospital regretted that no tests were done on the child under critical condition. He assured strict action against whosoever is found guilty by the investigation.”
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