Death due to medical negligence: 2 dead
Kolkata: Two incidents of medical negligence occurred in two South Bengal districts respectively on Friday.
The first incident was reported in Howrah's Uluberia where a 48-year-old woman had fallen victim of alleged medical negligence. The victim, Dulali Kar, was brought to Uluberia Sub-divisional Hospital on Friday night after she fell ill.
The patient died on Saturday early morning. The family members became infuriated and staged demonstration demanding the arrest of a doctor who did not come to the hospital after frantic calls were made, alleged the victim's husband. He alleged that the patient died due to non-treatment.
The demonstration was lifted following the intervention of the local Councillor.
It was alleged that the doctor who was staying at his residence refused to visit the patient after her condition deteriorated. Instead of visiting her, he asked the attending nurse to give some medicines to the patient.
The other incident took place at Gaighata in North 24-Parganas on Saturday morning.
One Rani Pramanik, a resident of Ramchandrapur in Gaighata, was admitted to Chandpara village hospital on Saturday morning.
The woman gave birth to a girl child who died in the hospital later.
The family members of the victim alleged that they wanted to shift the patient to another hospital as her condition deteriorated but the attending doctor did not allow her to be transferred to another hospital.
The family members also alleged that there was a delay in treatment by the doctor that led to the ultimately death of the new-born.
The family members heckled a few doctors and nursing staff of the hospital following the incident.
