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| Doctors at Lalded hospital trample over guidelines of NRHM, M&CH | | Keep wound open, blame patient for their fallacies | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Aug 29: Authorities at Lalded Hospital are trampling over the guidelines laid down by Union Health Ministry for patients admitted at the hospital. At the same time the doctors are not ready to own the responsibility for a negligence committed by them while dealing with a patient admitted at the hospital.
Twenty five years old Rubaya daughter of Mushtaq Ahmad resident of Bemina-Srinagar delivered a male baby a week earlier and everything was fine. Some days after delivering the baby, Rubaya developed some health problems and she contacted the doctors at Lalded Hospital. She was admitted in ward 118 in the hospital and the doctors termed it as a case of Hematoma. They said the disease can be cured only after carrying out the surgery.
Sources told Early Times that the doctors at the hospital carried out the surgery in hush hush manner and took the patient to the operation theatre without her consent and her father's consent. The unprofessional team of doctors without fearing for repercussions went ahead with the surgery. The surgery could have been avoided and other alternate means of treatment should have been expedited but that was not done by the team of doctors.
"The wound did not heal after the surgery and it caused severe discomfort to the mother. The doctors said that the wound has to be stitched. The doctors after failing to heal the wound kept the wound open thus putting it to infection. The doctors asked the patient and her attendants to make arrangements for medication thus flouting the norms under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) programme. Guidelines under Maternal & Child Health (M&CH) were also flouted with impunity by doctors at the hospital," said the sources.
The doctors at the hospital also forced the father of Rubaya to donate blood for her. They also asked him to make available some more units for the blood at the time of surgery adding that these might be used at emergency during the surgery. Under the norms of M&CH the blood has to be provided by the hospital authorities and more such blood points have to be kept reserved for the patient.
"Head of the unit, Dr. Nighat today broke all the records and said that the wound has to be stitched by administering anaesthesia to the patient on August 31 (Saturday). She also told the patient and her father that this would be done at the risk of the patient and the doctors would not be responsible for any complications thereof. The poor father of Rubaya has spent a lot of money on her treatment over the past few days and this too is in contravention of norms set out under NRHM and M&CH," said the sources.
The sources said that both Rubaya and her father are under tremendous depression and are not ready to cope up with the situation. The negligent attitude of doctors at Lalded hospital has posed a question mark over the efficacy of schemes like NRHM and M&CH in the state. |
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