Five deaths in a day? Heavy police power deployed at civic hospital in Thane
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By PTI
THANE: Heavy deployment of police has been put in place at a civic-run hospital in Thane metropolis of Maharashtra after an in a single day drama through which a gaggle of individuals gathered there and questioned the authorities alleging the demise of 5 individuals in a day as a consequence of “negligence”, officers stated on Friday.
The authorities of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, the place the incident happened late Thursday evening, nonetheless, denied the cost saying that just one affected person died there through the day as towards the allegation of 5 fatalities.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and MLA Jitendra Awhad additionally visited the hospital and alleged the 5 sufferers died as a consequence of negligence and likewise claimed that the hospital pretends to deal with sufferers even after their demise to generate profits.
“A group of around a hundred people gathered at the civic-run hospital around 10.30 pm on Thursday. They questioned the hospital authorities over the death of patients accusing them of negligence. However, no untoward incident occurred,” personnel of Thane police management room informed PTI.
After the incident, heavy deployment of police was put in place on the hospital, he stated.
NCP chief Awhad issued an announcement on Friday morning, through which he alleged, “As many as five persons died at the hospital in a single day (on Thursday) due to the negligence of the medical staff. While on the one hand, patients are not being admitted to the hospital on the pretext of paucity of beds, the deceased ones are kept in the ICU for hours.”
Writing about it on X, previously often known as Twitter, Awhad stated, “One woman called me saying that her husband was not receiving proper medical treatment at the hospital. When I went there, I came to know that her husband was being treated in the general ward. I was then informed that he has been shifted to the ICU.”
“When I went to the ICU, I was told that the patient had already died, but doctors and the hospital administration were treating him for five hours. The woman was not informed about her husband’s death. When I questioned the doctors about it, they could not answer,” he stated.
Awhad alleged that the hospital run by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) was looting sufferers by issuing inflated payments.
The hospital is earning money by falsely treating sufferers even after their demise, he claimed.
When contacted, TMC’s Additional Municipal Commissioner in-charge of medical providers Sandeep Malvi informed PTI that 5 sufferers didn’t die on the hospital in a single day.
“One of the patients undergoing treatment at the hospital was very serious. He died during treatment. Although his relatives did not question the hospital, others blamed the medical staff and made it a big issue,” he stated.
The hospital takes utmost care of the sufferers and ensures that each affected person is attended to correctly, he stated.
“The load at the hospital has increased manifold. The ICU which has a capacity of 50 patients, handles more than 70 patients,” Malvi stated.
In a current assembly presided over by Thane District Guardian Minister Shamburaj Desai, MLA Sanjay Kelkar took up the problem of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, saying that the administration wants to enhance its scenario, failing which the scenario would possibly slip out of hand.
THANE: Heavy deployment of police has been put in place at a civic-run hospital in Thane metropolis of Maharashtra after an in a single day drama through which a gaggle of individuals gathered there and questioned the authorities alleging the demise of 5 individuals in a day as a consequence of “negligence”, officers stated on Friday.
The authorities of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, the place the incident happened late Thursday evening, nonetheless, denied the cost saying that just one affected person died there through the day as towards the allegation of 5 fatalities.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and MLA Jitendra Awhad additionally visited the hospital and alleged the 5 sufferers died as a consequence of negligence and likewise claimed that the hospital pretends to deal with sufferers even after their demise to generate profits.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“A group of around a hundred people gathered at the civic-run hospital around 10.30 pm on Thursday. They questioned the hospital authorities over the death of patients accusing them of negligence. However, no untoward incident occurred,” personnel of Thane police management room informed PTI.
After the incident, heavy deployment of police was put in place on the hospital, he stated.
NCP chief Awhad issued an announcement on Friday morning, through which he alleged, “As many as five persons died at the hospital in a single day (on Thursday) due to the negligence of the medical staff. While on the one hand, patients are not being admitted to the hospital on the pretext of paucity of beds, the deceased ones are kept in the ICU for hours.”
Writing about it on X, previously often known as Twitter, Awhad stated, “One woman called me saying that her husband was not receiving proper medical treatment at the hospital. When I went there, I came to know that her husband was being treated in the general ward. I was then informed that he has been shifted to the ICU.”
“When I went to the ICU, I was told that the patient had already died, but doctors and the hospital administration were treating him for five hours. The woman was not informed about her husband’s death. When I questioned the doctors about it, they could not answer,” he stated.
Awhad alleged that the hospital run by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) was looting sufferers by issuing inflated payments.
The hospital is earning money by falsely treating sufferers even after their demise, he claimed.
When contacted, TMC’s Additional Municipal Commissioner in-charge of medical providers Sandeep Malvi informed PTI that 5 sufferers didn’t die on the hospital in a single day.
“One of the patients undergoing treatment at the hospital was very serious. He died during treatment. Although his relatives did not question the hospital, others blamed the medical staff and made it a big issue,” he stated.
The hospital takes utmost care of the sufferers and ensures that each affected person is attended to correctly, he stated.
“The load at the hospital has increased manifold. The ICU which has a capacity of 50 patients, handles more than 70 patients,” Malvi stated.
In a current assembly presided over by Thane District Guardian Minister Shamburaj Desai, MLA Sanjay Kelkar took up the problem of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, saying that the administration wants to enhance its scenario, failing which the scenario would possibly slip out of hand.
