A police case has been registered against the emergency medical service department of BMC’s Rajawadi hospital on Monday.
A police case has been registered against the emergency medical service department of BMC’s Rajawadi hospital on Monday for allegedly neglecting a victim of a railway accident and endangering the life and personal safety of others.
The incident took place on Sunday night when Samir Zaveri, a railway activist, learnt that the Government Railway Police (GRP) had taken a train accident victim - a 55-year-old unidentified man, to Rajawadi Hospital with head and hand injuries at around 7pm.
As the victim was unconscious, the railway police could not ascertain his identity or contact any of his relatives. However, though he needed immediate medical attention, the victim was left unattended on a stretcher in the hospital for over four hours, Zaveri said.
After learning about the accident, Zaveri rushed to the hospital around 10.55pm and contacted the Tilak Nagar police who also arrived at the scene.
However, despite repeated requests by railway police constable Vivekanand Patil and four licence porters, the on-duty doctors and other hospital staff allegedly did not admit the victim to the emergency ward of the hospital.
At around 11.50 pm, on duty Dr. Shramishta Lokhande told the railway police to wheel the victim to Ward no. 13 for an X-ray. However, no ward boy or nurse from the hospital assisted the police. Interestingly, the cop and two porters handling the accident victim were not provided with disposable hand gloves by the hospital authority which is mandatory, alleged Zaveri and added, “The victim was admitted to the ICU at around 1am on Monday. Until then, no medical treatment was provided to the victim.”
API Yuvaraj Patil of Tilak Nagar police station said, “Acting on the complaint of Sameer Zaveri, we have registered a case under sections 336 (endangering life ) and 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection disease dangerous to life) IPC against the on-duty doctors of the Rajawadi Hospital,” he said.
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