Dalit woman dies as govt hospital refuses old currency notes
Patna,(BiharTimes): Scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes had led to the death of a Dalit woman in the Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) in Gaya on Wednesday.
Though as per the Centre’s announcement Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were acceptable by government hospitals till November 24 yet Manju died on November 23 evening as ANMMCH efuses to accept them.
Reports said that ANMMCH superintendent Dr S K Sinha confirmed the death, but said the dialysis job has been outsourced to a private company.
“If anything went wrong, the private company, not the hospital administration, was responsible,” he was quoted in the Times of India.
Dr Sinha said the patient was admitted to the gynaecology ward of the hospital on November 15. She suffered from a disease called ‘eclampsia’ and was on Wednesday recommended dialysis. “The attendants complained to me that the dialysis centre was not accepting old notes,” he told the daily.
The superintendent said he intervened and told the dialysis centre officials that they were duty bound to accept the old notes as they functioned from the premises of a government hospital.
