Patna, (Bihar Times): Within a week a second clash took
place between Junior Doctors of the Patna Medical
College Hospital and the attendants of a patient, who
died a few hours after arriving at the hospital on
Sunday evening.
Seven years old Prakriti Bharti died in the ICU of
Paediatric Department on Sunday evening. Earlier in
the afternoon the girl was brought to hospital in a
critical condition. She was administered oxygen and
drugs but she did not survive. Her parents, however,
claimed that she died due to the negligence of the
doctors.
This was followed by a repeated exchange of heated
words as the family members demanded that the hospital
should hand over to them bed-head ticket. But the
hospital administration refused to hand it over to
them.
Prakriti’s father Sanjay Kumar Bharti, a lawyer,
alleged that the doctors misbehaved with him and the
family members and later assaulted them.
Dr Sanjata Roy Chaudhary, head of the Paedritic
Department, said that the terminally ill girl was
admitted in the paedritic ICU. The doctors on duty did
their best to save her but could not survive. Just
after the death the father went to lodge FIR. After
that the family members assembled and started
assaulting the doctors.
Both the parties lodged FIRs in Pirbahore police
station. The bereaved family members sat on dharna
with the body till late midnight.
However, unlike in the past the junior doctors did not
go on strike and work is quite normal.
Strike is a regular phenomenon in the PMCH. Only in
May 2007 doctors went on strike thrice within a week.
Social activists, Parveen Amanullah and Rekha Modi,
did try to work in favour of the patients. Parveen is
the wife of home secretary, Afzal Amanullah while
Rekha is a sister of deputy chief minister, Sushil
Modi. Yet their efforts failed to bring peace on the
hospital campus.
The PMCH watchers are of the view that not only are
the doctors and para-medics responsible for the chaos
in state’s premier hospital; even the attendants of
the patients also over-react. Of late the attendance
of the patients have started expecting too much.
(IANS)
