In a shocking display of inhumanity, two doctors and a nurse of Guru Govindsinh Hospital (GGH) in Jamnagar not only refused to treat an HIV+ patient, but stuck a strip of Band-Aid tape on her forehead.
In a shocking display of inhumanity, two doctors and a nurse of Guru Govindsinh Hospital (GGH) in Jamnagar not only refused to treat an HIV+ patient, but stuck a strip of Band-Aid tape on her forehead which said that she had tested HIV+. Sources said the two doctors made the young woman walk through different wards of the government hospital with the damning tape stuck to her forehead.
According to reports, when the 40-year-old woman, who is two months pregnant, went to the hospital on Saturday to get her pregnancy terminated, Dr Nalini Anand and Dr Dipti Joshi, both gynaecologists, took the help of a nurse, Praffula Ramani, to stick a Band-Aid adhesive tape on the patient's forehead.
The tape had the words: 'HIV Sero Positive', written on it. The young patient was then walked through different wards of the hospital before being taken to the hospital's laboratory where she was asked to sit and wait. Other reports, however, said that the patient was found HIV+ only on Saturday after the tests conducted on her at the hospital. When members of Jamnagar District Network of People Living with HIV positive (JDNP+), a social organisation that works for HIV+ people, came to know of the incident, they organised a protest against it.
Following the protest, the two doctors said they were willing to remove the tape from the woman's forehead. JDNP+ members, however, refused to budge and continued to demand the suspension of the two doctors and the nurse. "The hospital superintendent, Dr Vyas, has apologised and given us the assurance that disciplinary action would be taken against the two doctors and the nurse," said Ms Priti Chavda, president of JDNP+.
Meanwhile, state health minister Jaynarayan Vyas has ordered the doctors and the nurse to go on indefinite leave until the issue had been resolved. "We have asked them not to report for duty and proceed on indefinite leave," Vyas told
DNA. "Appropriate action would be taken on the basis of the report of the committee that has been constituted to go into the incident. The committee has been asked to give its report within three days."
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