Indore : MY Hospital administration may land in trouble for allegedly denying admission to a 25-year-old woman patient, who had died at the hospital in want for treatment, during junior doctors’ strike last week. District administration has initiated a probe into her death.
Divisional commissioner, Sanjay Dubey said that they had issued notice to the hospital administration seeking its explanation into the death of the woman.
“This is a case of negligence, stern action will be taken against responsible staff,” he said.
Following the notice, the MGM College dean MK Rathore had shot off a letter to the head of medicine department asking him to clear the air into the matter within three days. On June 10, 25-year-old Shobha Malviya, a resident of Hoshangabad district, was brought to MY Hospital by her husband Sanju Malviya.
However, the hospital staff had allegedly denied admitting her citing the indefinite strike of junior doctors. The patient’s husband was suggested to admit her to district hospital. Due to inadequate facility at Indore’s district hospital, the patient was again referred to MY Hospital where she died. After Shobha’s death the strike of the junior doctors had come in for flak. The MY hospital administration said that they had eventually admitted her but it was alleged why she was denied admission in the first place.
The district commissioner said that the hospital staff is expected to be sensitive in especially in emergency cases. “Incidents like that took place with Shobha disturb everybody.”
