PUNE As main hospitals in Pune wrestle to deal with rising Covid circumstances, residents resort to smaller hospitals. In some circumstances, these hospitals are unable to offer correct therapy to sufferers. In two such incidents, it was discovered that whereas these smaller hospitals admitted sufferers who had extreme Covid signs, however allegedly failed to offer correct therapy.
Sana Hospital positioned in Kondhwa, got here underneath heavy fireplace on social media after a video made by the deceased affected person’s father went viral. Within the video, the daddy of Atikh Sayed, Abdul Sayyed alleged that the hospital made him purchase costly medicines costing ₹14,000 day by day for nearly every week. The video unfold on social media and the hospital needed to face violent threats from family of sufferers.
Dr Suhel Khan who runs the hospital stated, “Now we have handled over 800 OPD sufferers of Covid who had been in dwelling isolation and above 180 in sufferers in our hospitals because the final wave and we now have a restoration fee of over 90 per cent. After a affected person doesn’t get a mattress in any of the key hospitals they arrive to us and we attempt to accommodate them. In smaller hospitals, the family have entry to the physician and they also attempt to get violent generally. On this explicit case, I filed a criticism with the native police to offer us safety.”
In one other case, a senior citizen was pressured to be admitted at Welfare Hospital the place the relative who himself was Covid optimistic needed to cater to the affected person’s wants as all the household was quarantined. The relative requesting anonymity stated, “My mom is a diabetic and she or he didn’t get breakfast within the hospital. I needed to get it from exterior. she didn’t even get sizzling water to drink. We obtained admitted late final evening and all through the evening there have been no medical doctors obtainable to start out the therapy.”
In response to the allegations Dr Sadik Khan, who is likely one of the medical administrators, stated, “Now we have an excessive scarcity of manpower. We don’t have catering services at our hospital and we ask the family to get meals for the affected person. In some circumstances, we now have sure locals who present tiffin companies if wanted. At smaller hospitals, the difficulty is that there isn’t a house to offer isolation between family and sufferers.”
Dr Sanjay Patil, hospital board chairperson, Pune, Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA), stated, “Many of the smaller hospitals are run by single medical doctors or by couple medical doctors. They should single-handedly handle oxygen provide, medicines and do clerical work for medical insurance coverage. The medical doctors additionally should concurrently handle OPD and hospitalised sufferers too. Since they’ve restricted beds, they don’t have any step-down or step-up facility whereby they’ve reserve beds to switch a affected person from ICU to oxygen mattress or oxygen to ICU beds. Catering and manpower are essential points in these hospitals which isn’t the case with main hospitals.”
