Doctors are the backbone of any nation. When people go to a doctor, they place their faith, body and mind in their care. In the same quest, when an old man in?Mahishadal, West Bengal began coughing profusely, his family wasted no time in taking him to a hospital. They took him to?the?Basulia?Rural Hospital in Midnapore and asked for the treatment to begin.?
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The doctors examined the old man and prescribed medicines to help him recover. The only flaw, in this case, was that the patient was?allegedly prescribed an antiseptic lotion in place of a cough syrup.?
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The problem arose because neither the patient nor anyone accompanying him could read, which is why they did not realize that he was actually consuming a lotion. That said, the old man actually drank one full bottle of antiseptic lotion, something which was meant to be used externally.
They eventually found out about this goof up when the man went to the chemist to buy another bottle, where he learnt that he had been consuming the wrong medicine all along.?
The family has now claimed that they followed the directions of the doctors and had no idea what they were taking. The son of the victim,?Nabakumar Samanta then immediately took his father to the hospital and reported the case. The hospital has taken full responsibility for the mistake and said that they will bear full charges of the case from there on.??
While it's a good thing that the hospital did not try to shirk off their responsibility- like a lot of hospitals do these days - this mistake could have proved fatal for the patient.?Let's hope he recovers soon and no permanent damage has been done due to this error.