In a bizarre incident, on Wednesday a four-day-old girl died after being sent back and forth from one department of a state-run hospital to another in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly. This incident prompted the state government to initiate action against senior doctors.
According to Hindustan Times, the four-day-old baby girl died after being shuttled from one wing of the hospital to another. The girl born at a private hospital, Maharana Pratap Jila Sanyukt Chikitsalaya, on June 15 had difficulty in breathing after which her parents brought her to the government hospital in Bareilly. Her family alleged they were made to run from one wing of the hospital to another for over three hours due to which the infant died.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Wednesday ordered the suspension of Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the men's wing at the government hospital, Dr Kamlendra Swaroop Gupta, on charges of negligence of duty. Yogi Adityanath tweeted on Wednesday night, "I have ordered the suspension of CMS of Male Hospital Bareilly on the negligence of duty and have ordered for departmental proceedings against CMS of Women Hospital. Any insensitivity by Govt. officials will not be tolerated in #NewUP.”
“The action was taken after a critically sick child was brought to Male Hospital, where sufficient paediatricians were available, but instead of stabilising the child and giving due treatment, he turned family away to Women Hospital. CMS of Women Hospital referred child back,” he said in another tweet.
The father of the infant, Yogendra, said that they first reached the outpatient department (OPD) of the hospital where a paediatrician examined his daughter. The paediatrician referred them to the adjoining women’s hospital, some 500 meters away, that houses a Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU). But when they took the infant to SNCU the doctor there asked them to return to the OPD. When they returned to the doctor in OPD, he asked them to take the child to the women’s hospital again. On his suggestion, Yogendra decided to return to the women’s hospital but by the time they reached the child was dead, reported the leading daily.
