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| Preliminary report indicts 'doctor death' for G.B. Pant hospital tragedy | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 6: The one-man probe preliminary report into the deaths of children in G.B. Pant Hospital is shocking and disturbing. While the report says the mortality rate at the hospital is much above the national average, being 20% as per the records, the report shows the records to indicate this mortality rate are also in shambles.
The preliminary report has indicted the former medical superintendent of the hospital maintaining that the hospital's records and working have been in a disturbing mess. "These records have never been maintained properly right from the beginning," the report says.
Dr. Showkat Ali Zargar, director of the SKIMS, who is carrying out the probe, has also said in his observations that at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the hospital there has been 'negligible presence of doctors which is shocking'.
The report also says whereas there are admission records, the figures about the outcome of patients regarding improved/same/died are not fully available at the hospital records section.
This clearly indicates somebody was trying to hide the actual mortality figures at the hospital and that is definitely a criminal act for which the state government is duty bound to initiate criminal investigation.
Making a new hospital, spending Rs. 2 crores on it and looking for better management of the hospital is absolutely okay, but before we begin to start a better facility, the responsibility for a large number of children deaths in the hospital must be fixed. Making a new hospital would not bring the dead children back to life. Their parents and the society as such need to know what went wrong and whether those responsible for such a loss of human lives is fixed and the guilty exposed before the public.
Isn't it criminal when the preliminary report says just one post graduate student and a nurse were looking after one of the NICUs at the hospital? The negligence and the callousness of the hospital management is simply unpardonable and unless the state government wants to convey an impression that it somehow wants to shield the guilty, they must be given exemplary punishment.
Reporting on the conditions of sanitation inside the hospital, the report has said the sanitation conditions are so poor and demanding that infections were liable to creep into the intensive care unit of the hospital. The report maintains that infection aided by the extremely unhealthy sanitation in the hospital has been the main cause for the deaths of the children. The report has also made a comparison of the children's deaths in the intensive care units of G.B. Pant hospital and SKIMS. Children with similar neonatal diseases are admitted at both these hospitals, but while the mortality rate at the SKIMS neonatal intensive care units has been 2 to 4%, it has been as high as 20% in G.B. Pant hospital and even saying the mortality rate is only 20% is also not fully supported by the hospital records. In fact, the mortality rate in case of the G.B. Pant hospital could have been still higher.
It is shocking that the former medical superintendent has not even once called a meeting of his faculty to discuss the problems of the hospital. If we conclude from the preliminary report that administrative mismanagement has been the root cause for the deaths of children inside the hospital from January 1 to May 15, then it is imperative that heads are sent to the chopping block. After all, no doctor, however, mighty and influential can act as 'doctor death' and get away with it.
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