Odisha: Lack of teamwork hits SCB Medical College and Hospital
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SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack is reported to have casualties- all due to an alleged gross internal misconduct. As a result of lack of coordination among clinical medicine and surgery departments, the referral calls for surgery cases is not being allegedly reported; hence, a situation where causalities are now being treated due to lack of proper treatment.
As reported on the ground level, a lot of buck-passing among the surgical departments has been continuously observed. Such a situation only leads to mishandling of cases due to one reason or the other. In few cases, there are infrastructural difficulties like one OT not being able to manage the heavy load of cases on its own. Super-speciality cases are also not being taken up by the surgery department enthusiastically.
Two such cases at the Gastroenterology department recently came to highlight at the hospital. As reported by the Express, one Suchitra Swain was admitted to the Department on November 6 with ulcerative colitis. With bleeding not controlled by medications, doctors gave a call to the gastrointestinal surgery (GI) and general surgery departments for intervention. But none was inclined to receive the case with one pretext or other. Finally, desperate family members took the patient away from SCBMCH and she is alleged to have succumbed.
As reported on the ground level, a lot of buck-passing among the surgical departments has been continuously observed. Such a situation only leads to mishandling of cases due to one reason or the other. In few cases, there are infrastructural difficulties like one OT not being able to manage the heavy load of cases on its own. Super-speciality cases are also not being taken up by the surgery department enthusiastically.
Two such cases at the Gastroenterology department recently came to highlight at the hospital. As reported by the Express, one Suchitra Swain was admitted to the Department on November 6 with ulcerative colitis. With bleeding not controlled by medications, doctors gave a call to the gastrointestinal surgery (GI) and general surgery departments for intervention. But none was inclined to receive the case with one pretext or other. Finally, desperate family members took the patient away from SCBMCH and she is alleged to have succumbed.
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