CUTTACK: Barely 24 hours after the shocking incident of a woman delivering a baby outside its gates, the City Hospital was again in the centre of a storm over the death of a 65-year-old woman due to alleged negligence. Tension prevailed as the kin of the deceased, K Satyabhama, along with locals gathered at the hospital demanding action against the erring doctors. Armed police had to be called in to defuse the situation. Satyabhama’s family of Pension Lane at Buxi Bazaar alleged that she had been suffering from fever and illness and had been brought to the hospital in the morning. She was prescribed medicines and taken home but as her condition deteriorated in the afternoon, she was again brought to the hospital at around 2 pm. “But no doctor attended on her and we had to return. We had to make four rounds of the hospital between 2 pm and 7 pm when she complained of severe chest pain and breathed her last,” her son K Deba alleged. He said she was seen by a lady doctor at around 7 pm who wrote some medicines but mother died in a few minutes after that, Deba said. The doctor on duty, Indira Nayak, refuted the allegations saying, the patient was given due attention. She was prescribed medicines in the morning and also attended to in the afternoon. “The kin have the patients’ requisitions for blood tests in different times of the day,” she said. The incident within a day of the Joharan Bibi case has brought to the fore the functioning of the City Hospital. Thanks to an indifferent district health administration, the hospital has begun to be deficient in rendering the much needed health services respectively. Questions are being raised as to why in both the cases, the seriously ill patients, were not admitted and told to go home.
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