Ranchi: After the Attractive Jharkhand High Court at the Ranchra Medical Sciences Institute (RIMS), Ranchi for the negligence of a 45-year-old black fungal patient named Usha Devi, who has been accepted at the Government Hospital since May 17, the hospital swings actions and has now planned The operation is for Thursday.
Last week, the son of Usha Gaurav Gupta had written to the chairman of the Minister of Hemant Soren where he, besides asking for CM for monetary assistance, had distracted him to the ‘lethargic attitude of the doctors in the Rims’ which caused his deteriorating condition.
He claimed that his mother had been received at the hospital for more than one and a half months and the negligence of the doctor made his condition very important.
Like Usha, many Musormycosis patients (black mushrooms) in rims – which have been designated as the center of excellence to treat mucormycosis patients after the State Government told fungal infections as an epidemic – faced with the same trial.
On Wednesday, TOI visited Dengue Ward, which had been converted into a dedicated environment for mukormycotic patients, and found that many require surgery and doctors did not even notify them when exactly what would happen.
Some patient relatives claim that operations must be postponed or canceled due to lack of coordination among doctors.
Toi spoke to a specialist and an ENT surgeon named Dr.
Abhishek Kumar Ramadhin, who had cared for a black mushroom patient for several months, and he said that it was very important to eliminate the burden of mushrooms from the patient and the debridement operation was the only one to do so.
“There are various types of fungal infections and many can be treated with drugs but black mushrooms need surgery.
I have treated 29 Musicycosis patients and I have operated on them all because drugs alone cannot cure patients like that,” he said.
According to the hospital record, 51 Musicycosis patients have been treated in rims to date, which, three patients underwent surgery.
At present, 21 patients are currently accepted in rims.
The rest runs out or died of infection.
According to several sources in the hospital, more than a dozen patients were declared suitable for operations by the Anesthesia department doctor last month but the surgeon from the ENT department did not operate on them.
“In the past one and a half months, my colleagues and I have declared 14 mucormycosis patients suitable for operation after conducting a pre-anesthetic examination but only three who underwent surgery until now.
I do not know the reason behind it but Nodal officers must record it,” said a doctor in the Anesthetic Department.
Toi tried to contact Nodal officers to mucormycosis in the rims, Dr K Birua, to ask the reason behind the low number of operations but he did not respond to the call.
Some patients even said that they were forced to buy drugs from outside.
“My wife was accepted here for about a week and the doctors raised it after convincing us that she had recovered.
However, her health deteriorated as soon as we took it home and she had to be accepted back.
I have spent more than Rs 50,000 in buying postconazole,” said a prabhu Ram.