Chaos at Telangana Hospital as staff remove Patient's Stitches over Unpaid Bill

Kamareddy: In a disturbing incident, medical staff at Apex Hospital in Kamareddy allegedly assaulted a patient and removed stitches from his wound after he was unable to settle a Rs 1,000 bill.    

The patient who visited the hospital after suffering injuries in a bike accident allegedly faced trauma at the hands of the hospital staff after they refused to accept the credit card that he had offered when he had no cash. 

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As per a Newstap news report, the patient who initially paid Rs 300 as consultation fees, received stitches for his wounds but was later presented with an additional bill of Rs 1,000. When he tried to pay the amount via credit card, the hospital reportedly refused to accept the method of payment. Tensions escalated, and a verbal altercation broke out between the patient, his friends, and the hospital staff.

In a shocking and unethical response, the hospital staff forcibly removed the stitches they had placed, sending him away without proper medical care. The victim, in distress and still bleeding, sought further treatment at the government hospital in Kamareddy.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a foreign-educated doctor who had not registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council and was found using the prescription slip of another registered doctor has been recently apprehended for allegedly treating a 21-year-old patient who died after receiving an injection for stomach pain at his private clinic in the Sultanpet area.

The unregistered medical practitioner was caught red-handed in an inquiry by a team of health department staff led by the Joint Director of Health Department in Coimbatore NN Rajasekaran on Sunday which revealed that the doctor completed his MBBS from Georgia in 2022 but did not clear the the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) mandated by the Medical Council of India. As a result, he failed to register with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council for practising medicine.

However, the doctor had been practicing medicine in the clinic which was also running without a valid license and treated several patients over the years which led to the recent death of one such patient in the Sultanpet area.

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