8-yr-old made to wait for more than 6 hrs at SSKM for emergency CT Scan

Kolkata: An 8-year-old boy from Howrah's Domjur who was taken to SSKM Hospital with fractured jaws and requiring an emergency CT Scan, had been kept on wait for more than six hours.

The CT Scan was finally done on the patient following the intervention of a senior official of the hospital more than six hours after he was brought to the emergency department at around 10.30 am on Saturday.

The family members of the patient went to the CT Scan unit several times urging the officials for the test but they allegedly told the family members that there was a long queue. The victim's parents were asked to appear on next Monday when they might get a date for the examination.

The patient was in need of an immediate CT Scan as his injuries were serious in nature and the doctors who treated the patient at the Emergency department mentioned on the prescription the urgency of the matter.

Kamal Debnath, a relative of the patient, said that they drew the attention of the people at the CT Scan unit saying that the doctor had asked for an urgent test to be done. They allegedly told the patient's family members as to why were they not asking the doctor to carry out the test himself. People at the CT Scan unit allegedly told the boy's parents that they would be given a date for CT Scan next Monday, no matter how serious the nature of his injury was.

It was learnt that the patient had received injuries on his teeth and jaws after he fell inside his school campus at Domjur on Saturday morning. A senior official of SSKM Hospital finally intervened and the CT Scan was done

on the patient.