Alpana-ji,
I think this particular situation of not telling pateinsts whether they could eat or not -- or mismanagement and lack of communication between the doctor and the nurse - rather than a deliberate attempt on the part of the nurse to avoid helping the patient. Maybe the nurse if afraid to ask the doctor and doctor does not know of the problem at all or is busy with something else - as was mentioned that electric supply was down --so the doctor might be busy dealing with that crisis.
Umesh
"Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
what about have a brain, if not a heart, and "do what you are supposed to do", instead of treating the patients like vegetables?
>From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Assam] Gauhati Medical College Hospital
>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:04:33 +0100 (BST)
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>these guys also need an education in Hospital Management - a new field which has recently emerged.
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>Umesh
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>"Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>http://www.sentinelassam.com/ ....read the whole story below, here are the highlights:
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>"To make matters worse for the three patients, who were not allowed food since last midnight due to the impending surgeries, the hospital authorities would neither tell them as to why there was the inordinate delay in performing the surgeries nor let them return to their respective wards.
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>As such t! he three poor souls, dogged as they were by their respective health problems (for which they were to be operated upon in the first place), had to go without either food or water from 9 a.m. when they were wheeled in to the operation threatre to 2 p.m. when they were finally informed by one of the doctors that the surgeries would have to be deferred as the OT lights as well as some other equipment failed to function.
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>While two of the patients had no other option but to return to their hospital wards to be operated upon at a later date, the other patient, 55 year-old Kailash Sarma of Nalbari, decided to take leave of the GMCH and admit himself at a private nursing home in the city for the surgery."
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>GMCH: Where patients fear to tread
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>By a Staff Reporter
>GUWAHATI, June 27: That everything is not right at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) came to the light here today yet ag! ain when three patients who were scheduled to undergo surgeries had to be turned back as the lights and other equipment at one of the operations threatres (OTs) failed to function.
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>To make matters worse for the three patients, who were not allowed food since last midnight due to the impending surgeries, the hospital authorities would neither tell them as to why there was the inordinate delay in performing the surgeries nor let them return to their respective wards.
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>As such the three poor souls, dogged as they were by their respective health problems (for which they were to be operated upon in the first place), had to go without either food or water from 9 a.m. when they were wheeled in to the operation threatre to 2 p.m. when they were finally informed by one of the doctors that the surgeries would have to be deferred as the OT lights as well as some other equipment failed to function.
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>While two of the patients had no other option but! to return to their hospital wards to be operated upon at a later date, the other patient, 55 year-old Kailash Sarma of Nalbari, decided to take leave of the GMCH and admit himself at a private nursing home in the city for the surgery.
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>Sarma, a school teacher, however, made sure that that the GMCH authorities gave it to him in writing as to why the surgery could not be performed today. As per his demand Dr HK Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, GMCH, handed him a written undertaken wherein he said "due to insufficient light we cannot perform operation today."
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>Be that as it may, the incident once again brings into focus the problems dogging the GMCH still regarded as one of the premier medical college and hospital of the North-east.
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>When contacted by this reporter, GMCH superintendent Dr PK Ozah admitted that one of the 13 OTs at the hospital was in the need of urgent repairs and maintenance and things w! ould be set right soon.
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>What he obviously failed to mention is that this particular OT has been playing traunt for a long time now and nothing has been done by the hospital authorities to set it right.
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