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Callousness or fooling patients?
IT HAS become a practice at the LLR Hospital: admitting patients under the care of doctors, who are on official leave. Twenty-nine patients were admitted in the name of HoD Orthopedics and 19 under a doctor in the medicine department, despite the two doctors being on a month?s leave since June 16.
IT HAS become a practice at the LLR Hospital: admitting patients under the care of doctors, who are on official leave. Twenty-nine patients were admitted in the name of HoD Orthopedics and 19 under a doctor in the medicine department, despite the two doctors being on a month’s leave since June 16.
The patients’ entry register at the emergency ward itself reveals the truth as even on July 2, two patients were admitted under the care of Dr Anand Swarup, HoD Orthopedics Department. According to the hospital record Dr Swarup is on a month’s official leave from June 16 to July 15.
Dr SK Saxena of Medicine department has been on leave for one month and 19 patients were admitted under him including 19-year-old Ruby, who was a suspected case of encephalitis. Ruby’s kin got her discharged on July 1.
Kin of patients admitted under Dr Anand Swarup claim that not even a single senior doctor had visited their patients and they were at the mercy of Junior Residents.
Sources in the medical college said, “It is something of grave concern that patients are being admitted under doctors who are on official leave and it is sheer violation of human rights.” On being asked about the fate of such patients every senior doctor shrugs off responsibility by ridiculing the functioning of government hospitals.
