In Jaipur a 35 year old patient, Munna Lal, died due to lack of power backup. The patient died in the process of shifting, said one of a relative of Lal.
The patient was on ventilator support at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Bikaner’s Prince Bijoy Memorial Government Hospital and died due to power failure.
According to the sources, power cut happened around 9am and there was no back up in A wing of ICU, where Munna Lal was admitted. He was shifted to another wing but it became too late for Mr. Lal. What is shocking is that the hospital does not have power back up for any of rooms and wards.
One of Lal’s relatives said, “In the process of shifting, Munna Lal died. All four ventilators in the ICU became dysfunctional”.
Lal belongs to Ratangarh town of Churu district and had been admitted to the hospital 10 days before his death. He was the patient of TB, kidney and liver ailments.
However, hospital staff explained that Lal died almost two and half hours after being shifted and his death did not relate to power cut disruptions.
Dr. RD Agarwal, professor of the hospital’s medicine department, “After the power failure, we shifted Lal to another wing within 10 minutes. He died at 11:30 am. His death has nothing to do with the power cut”.
But on the other hand hospital’s superintendent Dr KK Verma confirmed that the rooms and wards affected by power cut did not have any power back up.
He said “Work is on to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all wings of the ICU”.
I fear to think how such a hospital can run when they don’t have such a basic facility of power back up to high importance rooms like ICU.
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The patient was on ventilator support at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Bikaner’s Prince Bijoy Memorial Government Hospital and died due to power failure.
According to the sources, power cut happened around 9am and there was no back up in A wing of ICU, where Munna Lal was admitted. He was shifted to another wing but it became too late for Mr. Lal. What is shocking is that the hospital does not have power back up for any of rooms and wards.
One of Lal’s relatives said, “In the process of shifting, Munna Lal died. All four ventilators in the ICU became dysfunctional”.
Lal belongs to Ratangarh town of Churu district and had been admitted to the hospital 10 days before his death. He was the patient of TB, kidney and liver ailments.
However, hospital staff explained that Lal died almost two and half hours after being shifted and his death did not relate to power cut disruptions.
Dr. RD Agarwal, professor of the hospital’s medicine department, “After the power failure, we shifted Lal to another wing within 10 minutes. He died at 11:30 am. His death has nothing to do with the power cut”.
But on the other hand hospital’s superintendent Dr KK Verma confirmed that the rooms and wards affected by power cut did not have any power back up.
He said “Work is on to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all wings of the ICU”.
I fear to think how such a hospital can run when they don’t have such a basic facility of power back up to high importance rooms like ICU.
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