Kota: Female patient dies due to power outage at New Medical College Hospital

Kota: In an unfortunate incident, a female patient admitted at New Medical College Hospital (NMCH) who was undergoing treatment in the ICU department connected with a ventilator lost her life on Sunday night after the hospital's power supply was cut.  

A video went viral sparking huge controversy about the hospital. In the video, it can be seen that a doctor was giving emergency treatment to the patient under a torchlight. He performed PCR and gave injection to the patient but to no help. Soon the patient died.

The deceased identified as Nandubai aged 65, was a long-term patient with diabetes, high blood pressure, and paralysis, and had been suffering from fever, mouth ulcers for the past two months. Doctors after analyzing her condition prescribed to attach her with a ventilator in order to keep her alive.

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The power outage at the hospital resulted in a shortage of power supply in the surgical ICU, emergency, and COVID ward at NMCH. The power cut happened due to a fault in the supply panel and cable. As per TOI information, the power supply at the hospital was gone for almost three hours making 300 patients suffer from poor ventilation, and the AC, coolers, and fans were also not functioning well.

Angered by the situation, the family of the deceased patient blamed the hospital for her death by alleging that she died due to the discontinuity of oxygen supply caused by a power failure at the hospital.

Dr. Chandrashekhar Sushil, superintendent, NMCH refused the allegation by saying "For the last two days, she was semi-conscious. She had been brought in a critical condition on Sunday morning. Due to deterioration in her health, she had to be taken on a ventilator. She was administered life-saving drugs and CPR but she could not be revived. The ventilator and oxygen supply was functional on power back up." He also mentioned that oxygen sustained without interruption during the power outage.

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