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BHU-IT students complain against ?callousness? of docs
Agitated over the alleged improper medical treatment of their teacher at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University, the students of Institute of Technology (IT-BHU) submitted a four-point charter of their demands to director of Institute of Medical Sciences Prof Gajendra Singh today afternoon.
Agitated over the alleged improper medical treatment of their teacher at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University, the students of Institute of Technology (IT-BHU) submitted a four-point charter of their demands to director of Institute of Medical Sciences Prof Gajendra Singh today afternoon.
The students said, Dr RM Banik, Reader at School of Biochemical Engineering at IT, was operated for gall bladder removal on March 11, 2006 and subsequently ERCP was done to remove two stones present in the duet on March 18 by Dr VK Dixit and Dr AK Jain of Gastroenterology Department of IMS-BHU.
“The ERCP was done very carelessly without anaesthetic administration and it was for one-and-a-half-hour and while performing ERCP, Dr RM Banik was about to die due to low pulse and cardiac collapse,” alleged the students.
The students requested the IMS director to take immediate action within 48 hours (by Monday) from the submission of their letter, failing which they would be forced to resort to agitation in front of the IMS director’s office.
“Immediate suspension of the two doctors, inquiry against them, suspension of junior doctors who performed ERCP to Dr Banik without presence of senior doctors, CBI inquiry into private practice of BHU doctors and their involvement in taking commission from private pathological labs outside BHU and inquiry into misuse or sale of blood donated by students of BHU,” are the demands of the irate students.
Around two-dozen IT-BHU students including Santosh, Sourish Karmakar, Runni Mukherjee, Mayank, Sandeep Pandey and Devendra Pathak submitted the four-point charter of their demands to the IMS director’s office.
Meanwhile Dr VK Dixit, when contacted, while denying the charges said, the operation of Dr Banik was done quiet smoothly. “Even if there was some complication, then it was a genuine medical phenomenon which could occur with anybody,” he added.
