Patient released from RMCH after 3 days 'without treatment'
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Patient released from RMCH after 3 days 'without treatment'
Doctor was busy at private clinic, attendant alleges
A patient was released from a surgery ward at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) Saturday night allegedly after keeping him waiting for three days virtually without any treatment for want of a senior doctor.
Abbas Ali Mollah, an elderly patient from Kanaikhali in Natore town, was rushed to RMCH at around 5am on Thursday with severe pain from gall bladder infection.
He was admitted to Ward no. 6 under a senior doctor.
"There was no doctor but an intern who came to see my father three hours later admission", said Abbas Ali's son Farrukh Ahmed.
The intern talked to a senior doctor over cell phone and prescribed some medicines. He then left, saying a senior doctor will come shortly.
But none came. As the day passed, Ahmed was frantically looking for the doctor under whom his father was admitted.
The following day, he contacted the doctor on his mobile phone.
"At noon, the (senior) doctor told me that he was busy in a meeting. But 10 minutes later, I found him at a private clinic near the hospital", Ahmed told this correspondent.
In the evening on Saturday, Abbas Ali's condition deteriorated. Ahmed contacted the doctor again and was told to have 'patience'. Hours later, the ward staff told Ahmed that the senior doctor asked them to release his father.
At dead of night, Abbas was taken out of the hospital and taken to BIRDEM hospital in Dhaka, his son said.
"I could afford to take my father to Dhaka but there are many who can not do this", he added.
When contacted, the senior doctor said, he was on leave on Thursday and was busy in meetings with health secretary on Friday and the next day, he, however admitted that he was on duty at RMCH operation theatre.
Contacted, surgery department chairman Prof Dr ABM Abdul Hannan said, "Such conduct of a doctor is unexpected. Action will be taken so that no such incident occurs in future".
Entry of journalists for professional work at the hospital is barred for last two years. Hired security men have been deployed at the entrances of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Abbas Ali Mollah, an elderly patient from Kanaikhali in Natore town, was rushed to RMCH at around 5am on Thursday with severe pain from gall bladder infection.
He was admitted to Ward no. 6 under a senior doctor.
"There was no doctor but an intern who came to see my father three hours later admission", said Abbas Ali's son Farrukh Ahmed.
The intern talked to a senior doctor over cell phone and prescribed some medicines. He then left, saying a senior doctor will come shortly.
But none came. As the day passed, Ahmed was frantically looking for the doctor under whom his father was admitted.
The following day, he contacted the doctor on his mobile phone.
"At noon, the (senior) doctor told me that he was busy in a meeting. But 10 minutes later, I found him at a private clinic near the hospital", Ahmed told this correspondent.
In the evening on Saturday, Abbas Ali's condition deteriorated. Ahmed contacted the doctor again and was told to have 'patience'. Hours later, the ward staff told Ahmed that the senior doctor asked them to release his father.
At dead of night, Abbas was taken out of the hospital and taken to BIRDEM hospital in Dhaka, his son said.
"I could afford to take my father to Dhaka but there are many who can not do this", he added.
When contacted, the senior doctor said, he was on leave on Thursday and was busy in meetings with health secretary on Friday and the next day, he, however admitted that he was on duty at RMCH operation theatre.
Contacted, surgery department chairman Prof Dr ABM Abdul Hannan said, "Such conduct of a doctor is unexpected. Action will be taken so that no such incident occurs in future".
Entry of journalists for professional work at the hospital is barred for last two years. Hired security men have been deployed at the entrances of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
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