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| Poisonous medicine injected to patients in Rajouri hospital | | One patient dies, 15 critical, inquiry ordered, two arrested | |
Shafiq Mir
Rajouri, July 10-One patient died on spot while 15 others are still critical due to a poisonous (expired) medicine injected to them by the para medical staff of district hospital Rajouri during last night. Police have arrested two para-medical staffers in this connection and Deputy Commissioner Rajouri has ordered an inquiry into the incident. Reacting over the incident, local people staged about two hours dharna at Sher-e-Kashmir bridge demanding immediate shifting of the local doctors and para medical staffers from the hospital and strict action against them for their negligence.
Giving details, sources said, about 34 patients of medical ward fell unconscious at a11.30 pm last night soon after they were injected some expired medicines by the para medical staffers on duty. On seeing patients felling unconscious one after another, the attendants of the patients raised an alarm and started crying for the help out side the hospital. The panic gripped in the hospital when one of the patients identified as 34 year Rehmet Bi w/o Khadim Hussain died within few minutes of the medicine was injected to her. Hearing the hue and cry in the hospital, the local people were the first to reach the hospital and they searched the doctors and brought them to the hospital from their residences. There was no doctor on duty in the 50 bed ward of old hospital building where this incident took place, said the attendants of the patients.
In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, hundreds of local residents and attendants assembled at Sher-Kashmir Bridge and disrupted the traffic movement for about two hours. The protestors led by Ameer Mohammad Shamsi, Imam (preacher) of a local Jamia Masjid were demanding strict action against the continuous negligence of the health authorities with the patients besides demanding the immediate shifting of all the local doctors and para medical staff in the hospital.
The protestors lifted their Dharna only after police took into custody two paramedical staffers who had injected the poisonous medicine to the patients. The arrested para medical staffers have been identified as staff-nurse Bholi Devi and a nursing orderly Safeer Ahmed.
Deputy Commissioner Rajouri has also ordered a separate inquiry into the incident with additional Deputy Commissioner Javaid Ahmed Khan as head of the inquiry panel.
Later, Khan told this correspondent that he has asked the members of the team to submit the report within seven days so that action is taken against the officials responsible for the incident. Dr Abdul Rashid (MD) in-charge of the medical ward where the incident took place said that 50 patients were adversely affected by the expired medicine injected by the para medical staff. Of these, one died and 15 are still critical, he added. However, Medical Superintendent of district hospital Rajouri, Dr. K Panhotra says that only fifteen patients were affected due to the expired medicine.
The doctors are of the opinion that it was the ‘Normal Saline Water’ used as solvent for the injection as substitute of the distal water normally used for the purpose. Superintendent, Dr. K Panhotra said as the distal water is not supplied to the hospital they use Saline water as substitute. It is interesting to mention here that the bottle of Saline water used as solvent during last night is missing and the police could not find it so far. A senior officer wishing not to be named expressed his apprehension that may be some sort of the poison was dissolved in the Saline water bottle which was later injected to the patients with an intention to create panic among the masses.
Meanwhile, the patients admitted in the hospital alleged that none of the doctor remains present in the hospital thus forcing the patients to come at their private practice points out side the hospital.
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