Government hospitals are often in news for all the wrong reasons. And this one, surely, can make you think twice before taking your loved ones for treatment to one of them.?
A Rajasthan government hospital declared a newborn dead. When the aggrieved family members took her to the crematorium, she suddenly came to life. The incident took place after the on-duty nursing staff performed the delivery of 25-year-old Durgesh Rathore, a resident of Barnara village under Silor primary health centre of the district, in the absence of a gynaecologist or a medical officer, state reports.?
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After failing to find any "movement or respiration" the baby was pronounced dead. But just minutes before the burial something miraculous happened. When the family members were about to bury the "dead" baby, they felt its heartbeats and breathing and rushed to it back to the hospital.
It is alleged that after the birth, the nursing staff handed over the baby to the family members declaring it dead, without proper medical examination of the newborn by a medical officer or a pediatrician.
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The woman, who was admitted to the hospital on April 2, delivered a 22-to 24-weeks old premature baby, weighing about 350 to 400 grams said Deputy Hospital Superintendent Dr O P Verma.
"Dr D S Sharma examined the baby when she has rushed to hospital again and she was alive," said the medical jurist at the hospital, Dr Anil Arora, adding the newborn was "extremely premature only with the lungs functioning and her survival is hardly possible."
Dr Verma admitted to the negligence on part of nursing staff by not calling the medical officer on duty and handing over the baby to family members as "dead" without proper medical examination by doctor.
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"We checked the call book of the hospital and the medical officer on duty was not called," Verma said.
Taking a serious note, district collector Naresh Kumar Thakral ordered an inquiry by a two-member committee -- Dr Gajanand Verma and Dr Chandresh Meena -- into the matter and sought a report by tomorrow.
Additional district collector Mamata Tiwari also visited the hospital and inquired about the matter and also spoke to the family members.
PTI