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| Mother of 3 dies as SKIMS asks attendants to 'treat' critically ailing patient | | | Hyder Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 14: In yet another case of medical negligence at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura here, a mother of three died when the doctors on duty at the emergency ward formally asked her attendants to treat this dying patient.
On May 11, 48-year-old Tasleema Jan wife of Engineer Nisar Ahmed Shah of Chanapora was rushed to a hospital in an unconscious state.
Just an hour before, her mother-in-law had passed away. And, ahead of her funeral, Tasleema fell unconscious. The family rushed to a nearby private hospital where doctors said her condition was critical and referred her to the SKIMS.
On reaching SKIMS, the family got a shock of life when the doctors asked them to do the "specialized job" of giving her oxygen through Umbobag, which is to be run by specialized staff.
The attendants of this patient, admitted under MRD number 916135, begged before the doctors that they were not trained to manage such medical devices but the reply came negative. "If you can run it, do it otherwise, we are just not responsible to offer nursing to your patient," the doctors reacted.
Helpless, the family agreed and started hurriedly pumping the Umbobag. Doctors said pumping the oxygen bag was not to be any hit and trial but that number of presses was to be administered cautiously.
But as the attendants knew nothing about medical sciences, they kept pumping the bag as fast or slow they found would be better.
Within an hour of the pumping, the condition of the patient deteriorated. "She was no more responding, so we begged before the doctors to treat her personally but we were asked to continue with the pumping," said the family.
In a few hours, one of their close relatives who happens to be prominent medico, Dr Abdul Majid Wani, visited the hospital to see Tasleema.
Dr Wani, a SKIMS alumni, who earlier worked with the hospital for over a decade before going abroad, was shocked to see that the critically ailing patient had been left at the mercy of attendants.
The medico started examining her only to diagnose that she was brain dead. Dr Wani raised an alarm. "How can you leave a patient to be administered specialized treatment through attendants? This is fall of grace and medical ethics. This patient is going to die because of the sheer medical negligence," Dr Wani, who has over 60 globally acclaimed research papers, to his credit, told Early Times.
He said the patients should have been kept on ventilator than in the emergency ward where her attendants treated her. Junior doctors responded saying this was the "standard protocol."
Finding no "sensible replies", Dr Wani took out his smart phone and took video of the "criminally ill treatment meted with a dying patient" and immediately circulated it on social media.
In no time the security guards, who allegedly act like henchmen of SKIMS Director, rushed in and dragged Dr Wani out of the hospital.
In another hour, Tasleema was finally declared dead. By now, doctors across the globe had seen the video and pictures posted by Dr Wani. The pathetic visuals took the medical fraternity by shock.
Condemning the "deteriorating standards", the concerned said SKIMS has turned into "medical mafia." "A medical mafia at SKIMS, has converted this prestigious hospital into butchery shop where only influential people are benefitted," posted a medico working in Europe.
"If this happens with a patient, whose attendant is a senior doctor, the plight of common man can only be imagined," asked a Kashmiri medico based in US. The medical fraternity had every right to move court against the "criminal negligence. "
The Medical Superintendent SKIMS Dr Farooq Jan, however, said there was no medical negligence. "This is a normal condition for us to ask attendants to pump umbobags," he said adding hospital was running short of workforce and thus some of the responsibility of doctors and paramedics was to be shouldered by the attendants.
To a question that Kashmiri doctors across the globe were condemning this "negligence", he said: "It were those doctors who proved failure in Kashmir or left homeland for greener pastures." |
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