Really horrible. On 12/23/14, Nilesh Bendre <[email protected]> wrote: > Action must be taken against such doctors, > > Who fail to perform their duty. > > > > > > Blind student falls from train, hospital ignores him > > MUMBAI: A 24-year-old visually impaired law student who fell from a local > train in Dadar has alleged that doctors at Sion Hospital did not treat him > for > > nearly six hours, as he lay writhing in pain on a stretcher in the corridor > of the casualty ward without so much as a bedsheet to cover him. > > Govind Mahaliya suffered two fractures on his right leg after falling off > the coach reserved for handicapped and cancer patients of a CST-bound local > > that had started moving before he could alight completely. The first-year > student of Government Law College was on his way to their Churchgate hostel > when > > the incident took place around 9.30pm on Sunday. A few ticket checkers and > other passengers rushed to his rescue. > > He was taken to the emergency medical room on platform six, where the > doctor-on-duty administered painkillers and dashed him to Sion Hospital in > an ambulance. > > "I was in too much pain to understand what was happening. The railway > police made a phone call to my friends," Mahaliya told TOI. "There was no > urgency > > shown to treat me. The casualty area is so cold that I was shivering > throughout. But no one bothered to fetch me a blanket or even a sheet," he > said. > > The Rajkot resident said his college friends, who are his only support in > the city, made it to the hospital within 15 minutes of being informed by > the > > Government Railway Police (GRP). "When we arrived, he was being prepared > for > an x-ray, which was eventually taken around 10.43pm," said Vaibhav Sangya, > > one of his friends. > > The x-ray revealed that he had fractures of the fibula and tibia. The > doctors then approached his friends saying he needed a surgery immediately > and that > > they should arrange for the money. One of Mahaliya's doctor friends, who > rushed to the hospital, started asking the resident doctor about the > diagnosis > > and treatment plans. "I got rude answers. They gave us options of two > implants with varying costs. Soon after, they started insisting on Rs 5,000 > for the > > operation theatre," said the doctor friend who did not wish to be named. > The > family, in the meantime, started hunting for private nursing homes given > that > > doctors at Sion did not give him any treatment till 3am. > > Mahaliya claimed that suddenly at 3am he was informed that surgery was not > required. "We were told that the surgery was delayed till Monday," he said. > > The ordeal did not end here. The family started insisting on admitting the > patient to which Mahaliya claimed the doctor said that things work at a > slower > > pace in public hospitals. > > His friends managed to arrange for a bed after much nagging around 4.30am. > "We were curtly told to shift the patient from the the college building's > casualty > > ward to the hospital building's orthopedic ward on the third floor on our > own. There were no ward boys around," said Sangya. > > Mahaliya claimed he was not seen by any senior doctor till Monday evening. > > Head of orthopedic department Dr Arvind Goregaonkar, though, said that > emergency surgeries are never delayed for implant or OT payment. "Patients > are > > kept in the casualty area as it is fully equipped with doctors, diagnostic > facilities and the OT for any emergency." He added that tibia and fibula > fractures > > can be operated even after seven days with good results. Dean Dr Avinash > Supe also said there was no delay in attending to the patient. "He will be > operated > > in a few days," said Supe. > > > > Source : > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Blind-student-falls-from-trai > n-hospital-ignores-him/articleshow/45609286.cms?prtpage=1 > > > > Regards, > > Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. >
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