Resident doctors assaulted after two patients die at Kota Hospital
Kota: Tension erupted at the government-run MBS Hospital in Kota after relatives of two patients who died during treatment allegedly assaulted resident doctors, tore their clothes and damaged hospital property. The relatives later placed the bodies on a road outside and raised slogans, accusing the hospital of medical negligence.
The two deceased were Kishan, 25, a resident of Tonk district, and Madan Lal, 55, of Badanaya Goun in Bundi district.
According to the hospital, the incident took place when Kishan died of complications arising from a tetanus infection, while Madan, who had been admitted with severe abdominal swelling, succumbed to breathing complications.
A doctor said the staff was administering CPR to one of the patients when his relatives created a ruckus.
According to the PTI report, the doctor alleged that he and his colleague were in the middle of a CPR when around two dozen people barged inside, roughed them up and tore their clothes. They escaped by running into a bathroom.
Kishan was admitted to the isolation ward, while Madan Lal was receiving treatment in the emergency ward.
The hospital said both were already in critical condition since their admission last night.
Meanwhile, a brother-in-law of Kishan alleged that Kishan’s condition deteriorated after he was administered an injection.
“As I grabbed the doctor, he handed over these (showed stethoscope and T-shirt) to me and ran away,” he said.
Angry kin allegedly damaged hospital furniture, bathroom gates, and carried one of the bodies out of the ward and protested on the road outside the hospital.
“The resident doctors are filled with outrage over the manhandling, tearing of clothes and have boycotted the work for a while. However, they agreed to handle the emergency cases showing sensitivity,” MBS Hospital superintendent Dr Dharamraj Meena said, reports PTI.
He denied there was negligence in the treatment of the two patients, insisting they were already critical.
Meena said that two were not even officially declared dead before their relatives removed them from the hospital and attacked the resident doctors.
Meanwhile, Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police Dr Punam Chauhan said the police had registered separate cases in the deaths under Section 194 (suspicious, unnatural death) of BNSS.
Kishan’s body was handed over to his family members after the postmortem, while the autopsy of Madanlal was underway, she said.
The doctors had yet filed no police complaint, the DSP said.
Resident doctors later staged a protest on the hospital campus, demanding action against those responsible for the attack. Hospital authorities said a formal complaint would be lodged with the police against the accused.
