Attendants ‘beat’ medical student, doctors stage sit-in
KD Special Correspondent
Srinagar: In an alleged case of negligence a patient admitted in SMHS Hospital was prescribed with Remdesivir by doctors despite his Covid-19 test reports awaited, causing a ruckus in the institute as attendants allegedly beat medical student at the hospital.
Sources in the hospital told Kashmir Despatch that a patient was admitted in ward 3 of the hospital a few days ago. The patient was suffering from bilateral pneumonia and had COVID-19 like symptoms. With his situation little critical sources said a female doctor who was on the duty had prescribed the patient with Remdesivir, a recently discovered drug to quiver COVID disease.
However, the final test report of the patient for COVID-19 was awaited.
Though Remdesivir is not available in the open market, sources said that the medicine is made available by a medical agency who had contacted SMHS hospital administration earlier stating that in case a patient is in need, the same shall be provided to the hospital.
However, later in the evening, the test reports of the patient turned negative creating confusion among his attendants. Reports said that the patient’s relatives and attendants confronted the doctors after the patient was tested negative.
“How can doctors prescribed Remdesivir medicine to the patient when his COVID test report is awaited. And when we confronted doctors they said, that the patient had pneumonia and will be treated by this drug having no side effects. Are our doctors trying to play with the lives of poor patients, one of the relatives of the patient told Kashmir Despatch.
As per the attendants, the female doctor downplayed the prescribed medicine as a normal one.
”When we told the doctor that how can they prescribe Remdesivir, the doctor said that it will help the patient in the treatment of pneumonia as it has no side effect and moreover, it is good as the patient was tested negative. Is that some kind of joke. These doctors are playing with innocent people”, said another attendant.
Sources said that the patient required a ventilator at the hospital but the same was not available because of the heavy rush of patients.
However, sources added that the hospital authorities had contacted SKIMS Soura for the availability of a ventilator for the said patient.
Soon after the news about the scuffle between attendants and the doctors broke, the female doctor was allegedly mishandled by the attendants, while she somehow left from the scene. However, hours later few final years medical students who were on the checkup round were allegedly beaten by the attendants, among which one was were severely injured.
At the time of this report, doctors were agitated and were seen protesting inside the campus of Government Medical College Srinagar wherein civil and the police administration were trying to solve the matter.
