12/23/2015
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 23: The doctors at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu have allegedly refused to operate a patient who was critically injured in a road accident and was shifted to GMCH from Sub District Hospital (SDH) Bishnah for specialized treatment.
Narrating their woeful plight with ‘Early Times’, the family members of the patient who had a fractured leg alleged that due to an unholy nexus between the chemist shops and doctors, they are denied treatment/operation as in haste they brought surgical items randomly but not from a particular medical shop specified by the doctors.
One of the family members said, “Patient namely Raju Gupta resident of Bishnah got his left leg fractured in road accident eight days ago and he was brought to Sub District Hospital Bishnah in a hope to get specialized treatment at the GMC&H Jammu.” “Ironically things got from bad to worse for them as doctors refused to operate upon the patients despite their earlier opinion to operate at the earliest”, aggrieved family lamented.
They further added that the doctors on duty at Orthopaedic department had advised a surgery and even fixed the scheduled date. “Few days ahead of scheduled surgery, the doctors on duty gave a list of the instruments and other material needed for surgery and family members despite financial constraints arranged the surgical items as per the list but the doctors on duty then wrote some more items maintaining that those were direly needed for surgery” they informed.
“We purchased the items from a medical shop situated in close vicinity of Hospital and a day before the operation, the doctors on duty checked all the items and after ensuring the complete set of desired items they packed the whole for sterilization,” family said and alleged that today operation had to be performed on Wednesday afternoon, but the doctors refused to operate the patient saying that surgical items were not complete.
They alleged that there was prevailing an unholy nexus between doctors and chemist shops with their middle men (agents) roaming freely in orthopedic wards of the hospital and because of nefarious commission culture, their patient was being harassed. “The doctors, who prescribe medicine and other material want it from particular shop, as they get huge commission in return from these shops, they alleged.
The family members claimed that they had submitted a written complaint against the doctors concerned with the hospital authorities.
Associate professor of Orthopaedic department GMC Jammu, Dr Sanjeev Gupta denied all allegations leveled by the family members and reiterated that the items required for the surgery were not procured. “Further, the medical condition of the patient was not stable and hence the operation was postponed, “he added.
Early Times Report
Narrating their woeful plight with ‘Early Times’, the family members of the patient who had a fractured leg alleged that due to an unholy nexus between the chemist shops and doctors, they are denied treatment/operation as in haste they brought surgical items randomly but not from a particular medical shop specified by the doctors.
One of the family members said, “Patient namely Raju Gupta resident of Bishnah got his left leg fractured in road accident eight days ago and he was brought to Sub District Hospital Bishnah in a hope to get specialized treatment at the GMC&H Jammu.” “Ironically things got from bad to worse for them as doctors refused to operate upon the patients despite their earlier opinion to operate at the earliest”, aggrieved family lamented.
They further added that the doctors on duty at Orthopaedic department had advised a surgery and even fixed the scheduled date. “Few days ahead of scheduled surgery, the doctors on duty gave a list of the instruments and other material needed for surgery and family members despite financial constraints arranged the surgical items as per the list but the doctors on duty then wrote some more items maintaining that those were direly needed for surgery” they informed.
“We purchased the items from a medical shop situated in close vicinity of Hospital and a day before the operation, the doctors on duty checked all the items and after ensuring the complete set of desired items they packed the whole for sterilization,” family said and alleged that today operation had to be performed on Wednesday afternoon, but the doctors refused to operate the patient saying that surgical items were not complete.
They alleged that there was prevailing an unholy nexus between doctors and chemist shops with their middle men (agents) roaming freely in orthopedic wards of the hospital and because of nefarious commission culture, their patient was being harassed. “The doctors, who prescribe medicine and other material want it from particular shop, as they get huge commission in return from these shops, they alleged.
The family members claimed that they had submitted a written complaint against the doctors concerned with the hospital authorities.
Associate professor of Orthopaedic department GMC Jammu, Dr Sanjeev Gupta denied all allegations leveled by the family members and reiterated that the items required for the surgery were not procured. “Further, the medical condition of the patient was not stable and hence the operation was postponed, “he added.
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