LAGATAR 24 NETWORK
Daltonganj, Aug 25: A piquant situation arose in the Medinirai Medical College Hospital today when former minister K N Tripathy along with scores of common people sat on impromptu dharna against the fast deteriorating and shabby medical treatment in the hospital.
Tripathy showed the original emergency OPD ticket in respect of a 45-year-old tribal Bhupender Nath Singh who had an acute heart attack but the doctor on duty in the emergency OPD on Thursday evening just wrote SoB (short of breath) as a major complaint and CHD (coronary heart disease) as diagnosis of the complaint.
The doctor on duty did not write any medicine at all. There was also no record of the pulse rate mentioned in the emergency OPD ticket of the tribal patient. The blood pressure count was shown as 100/70.
And then, the doctor on emergency duty without giving any medicine or oxygen support to this tribal patient wrote ‘referred to higher centre for better treatment’.
The heart attack tribal patient languished all night waiting for 108 ambulance to rush him to the RIMS Ranchi.
Tripathy raised a volley of legitimate questions over the emergency OPD response to a heart attack tribal patient.
“The doctor on duty at the emergency OPD is duty bound to ask for a specialist physician on call to rush to examine and treat a heart attack patient which was not done. This is a gross negligence of duty tantamounting to a criminal act of the doctor on duty at the emergency OPD,” he said.
“This MMCH in Daltonganj is to save lives but here there are doctors who want it to be a death house which I will always resist and protest and will go to any extent to book such erring doctors,” reiterated Tripathy.
Palamu Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Kumar was the first to reach the dharna site followed by the acting medical superintendent Dr R K Ranjan. The two heard the version of Tripathy with rapt attention.
The Civil Surgeon said, “I in consultation with the medical superintendent will soon conduct a sensitization course for the young doctors as to how to respond and behave with a person who wants to know about the health of his patient.”
Dr Anil Kumar had to say about this sensitization programme for the young doctors when Tripathy shouted that there was a lady doctor on duty who gave him a raw deal when he asked her about the condition of the heart attack tribal patient. Tripathy alleged this lady doctor continued to hide her professional identity all through.
The acting medical superintendent Dr R K Ranjan told Tripathy that the first-hand life-saving measures for the heart attack tribal patient were provided by him in his individual capacity as a doctor and then on the request of the family of the tribal patient, he was rushed to the MMCH Daltonganj with a vehicle provided by him alone.
Dr Ranjan assured Tripathy saying “This episode will be very seriously looked into. The erring doctor can’t get away. The emergency OPD response of the doctor on duty on Thursday evening was most condemnable as all possible efforts ought to be made to make the heart attack patient stable.”
Dr Ranjan said the erring doctors would be showcaused.
