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Doctors' "negligence" claims 2 lives

Sent to Isolation Ward of suspected swine flu patients, they died for want of treatment
2/28/2015
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report            

Jammu, Feb 28: Due to alleged negligence on the part of health department, two patients died in the isolation wards meant for suspected swine flu cases at makeshift hospital in Col Chopra Nursing Home.
One more case of GMCH doctors' alleged negligence came to the fore when the report of Dr Bhupinder Singh, a pediatrician tested negative for H1N1. He had died of respiratory problems last Thursday. The doctors had not bothered to examine him for some other disease. Similarly, a few days ago, a patient namely Raj Kumar died in the isolated ward of GMCH. He too was not affected with swine flu as per his medical report. He too failed to get the requisite treatment in the hospital.
Reliable sources in GMCH said as per the medical examination report of Dr Bhupinder Singh, he was not infected with H1N1. This raises serious questions on the professional conduct of the doctors who had attended on Dr Bhupinder. Sources said Dr Bhupinder could have been saved if all the requisite tests were conducted on him to find out the disease he was suffering from. But the doctors only took his blood sample and sent it to National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Delhi. The doctors also kept him in the isolated ward in Col Chopra Nursing Home of GMCH.
He was alleged to be treated for swine flu.He died of respiratory problems for which he was not treated, sources alleged. Raising question on the working of GMCH doctors, sources said that due to non-seriousness on their part, two patients died in confusion as they suffered from other ailments. "Who is responsible for their deaths?" the sources asked.When contacted, GMCH principal, Dr Ghanshyam Dev Gupta said that Dr Bhupinder Singh was suffering from Asthma at time he was admitted.

 When asked why he was shifted to isolated ward, where there was high risk of the virus, he said that there was now risk of H1N1 and administration hospital had established separate ward for the H1N1 suspects. Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Shantmanu said that if need arose, an inquiry would be conducted into Dr Bhupinder's death."Yesterday, I took up the issue with Health Secretary and passed directions to also conduct other tests on the suspected swine flu patients," he informed.

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