| Patient dies due to non-availability of oxygen, doctors’ negligence at GMC, alleges family | | | 
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 27: A covid patient died of alleged non-availability of oxygen and doctors’ negligence at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) here this afternoon.
Family members and relatives of the patient, who died at GMC&H alleged that despite their repeated request no one at hospital was willing to attend him. “Doctors at GMC&H wasted our valuable time, at least 90 minutes. I kept requesting them to provide oxygen to him, when he was sinking outside the hospital”, said Ajit Singh son of the patient.
“All members of my family were covid positive but my father, an ex-employee of the health and medical department, had recovered a lot. I arranged one cylinder of oxygen at home. But early this morning the cylinder was exhausted. My father took his proper breakfast. I insisted him to go to hospital, and he agreed”, he said, adding that at around 8:30 am on Tuesday, they reached CD Hospital. “In CD Hospital no one was willing to provide treatment, saying that there was no oxygen in the hospital.
A female staff member who was on duty at CD Hospital first wasted more than one and half hours. Then she rang up to her senior officer, who directed her to refer the patient at GMC&H”, he said recollecting the ‘torture’ his family went through this morning for treatment of their sick patient.
“With the referral slip we rushed to GMC&H, where my father was made sit outside the hospital for one and half hour like CD Hospital for want of oxygen. I requested every staff member of the GMC&H with folded hands for timely treatment, but my requests remained unfulfilled. After lapse of a lot of time, my father was taken in the ward, where doctor pronounced him brought dead”, he said, requesting the people protect themselves on their own, as treatment for common man is no more exists. “Every facility in the hospital is reserved for VIPs and VVIPs”, he said. |
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