Authorities say elderly people had natural deaths
BARAMULLA: Three people, two of them women, died at the district hospital in Baramulla due to the alleged negligence of the doctors sparking off strong protests by the attendants on Friday.
Sumander Faqeer, 70, of Boniyar, Bakhti Begum, 65, Hajra Begum, 70, both residents of Rafiabad died at the district hospital after being allegedly administered expired dextrose by the paramedics on Thursday, witnesses said. Many patients also experienced shivering after they were administered dextrose by the medicos in the ward No 1 of the hospital, they said.
The deaths due to alleged negligence triggered protests by the attendants and the locals outside the hospital.
Shouting slogans against the hospital administration, the protesters blocked Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road near Kanth Bagh for several hours. The protesters were demanding a probe into the circumstances that caused the deaths.
Later, a team of civil and police officials, including ADC, Baramulla, Riyaz Ahmad Wani, DSP headquarters, Feroz Yahya visited the hospital to take stock of the situation.
According to Mohammad Maqbool Sheikh who was attending on his brother, admitted in the hospital for urine infection, said he developed shivering after being given dextrose by the paramedics on Thursday night.
My brother was shivering badly. We kept him warm with several blankets and brought drugs from the open market that provided him relief after sometime, Sheikh said.
He said later in the night two people died at the hospital after being given dextrose by the paramedics. He said that the panicked attendants also called the Medical Superintendent but to no avail.
Refuting the allegations of negligence, the Medical Superintendent (MS) district hospital, Baramulla, Dr Bashir Chalkoo said that the elderly patients had a natural death.
I say with confidence that no death has been caused by drip reaction or drugs given at the hospital. The patients were elderly and were suffering from lung disease, he said.
He said that some patients, who had developed shivering after being administered with the dextrose, were stable and doing well.
Drip or allergic reactions happens in a few cases. But the death due to cold have not happened in the hospital, he said. (GNS)
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