Ranchi: 45-year-old mucormycosis patient, Usha Devi, who was operated at the Rims on July 8 after the Jharkhand High Court intervention, died on Sunday morning.
After the news of Devi’s death broke, his relatives accused negligence in the part of the hospital authority, complaining that he had to wait more than 50 days for his operations.
The son of Devi, Gaurav Gupta, has demanded an investigation that alleged that his mother would live a surgical conducted before.
Gaurav has filed a complaint of the police at the Baratian Police Station demanding action against 11 doctors, including the Director of Dr.
Kameshwar Prasad and Dr.
Vivek Kashyap’s medical supervisor, for ‘medical negligence’.
Gaurav said: “I sent an application to Superintendent Hospital Dr.
Vivek Kashyap twice, asked him to arrange my mother’s operation but he did not take any action.
The doctors had also canceled my mother’s operation twice in the past month with one pretext or who Another.
I demand a thorough investigation into my mother’s care at the Rims, “Gupta said.
Specialist ENT and Surgeon Dr.
Abhishek Kumar Ramadhin, who has treated Mukormycosis patients, said: “Black mushrooms cannot be cured with only drugs and surgery must be done to eliminate the burden of mushrooms from the infected part.
I have treated 29 Musyrcosis patients so far And I have operated everything because drugs cannot help eliminate the burden of infection and if they continue to grow it can be fatal to the patient.
“Speaking in the case of Usha Devi, Dr.
Ramadhin said that it did not carry out operations in the patient mucormycosis which was confirmed equivalent to not treating patients , Immediately after Devi’s death on Sunday morning, the RIMs authorities mobilized security forces on the fifth floor of the ICU from a super special block.
Riot vehicles are also seen outside the building.
When contacted, Rims Pro Dr.
D K Sinha said: “The police have been deployed based on the input received by the hospital administration.” Because asked why the operation scheduled by Usha Devi was postponed on two occasions, Dr.
Sinha said: “I do not know the exact reason behind the delay, but the director has given a decision to the team assigned to guard.
Black mushroom patients.
Dr.
Prasad has also taken Nodal officers For the task of failure in conducting a black mushroom surgery.
“Meanwhile, the doctor who took care of Devi said he developed a post-operative septicemia and which caused his death.
“There was excessive bleeding from the parts near his left eye, which was removed during the operation.
The level of blood pressure was also reduced dramatically.
The patient has developed an infection and he died of the septicemia,” Dr.
Chandrakanti Birua, Nodal Officials for Mukormycosis in Rims, said ,
Jharkhand: black mushroom patients die ‘medical negligence’ in rims
