Covid physician heckled by MP Congmen, quits

THE NODAL officer for Covid care at a prime authorities hospital in Bhopal submitted his resignation after he was heckled by a gaggle led by Congress MLA and former minister P C Sharma over the dying of a 35-year-old man within the facility’s emergency room.
The incident on Saturday was captured on video by a physician on responsibility at J P Hospital, who shared the clip on-line, prompting a backlash on social media and a tweet from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan interesting for folks to respect these on the forefront of the struggle towards Covid.
However, the household of the deceased mentioned the video didn’t present the total image and that they had been repeatedly instructed to take him away to a non-public hospital as there have been no ICU beds out there.

“The way their doctors were talking to us, pushing us to take him away to a private hospital, was unbearable,” mentioned Rajendra Sakhya, the brother-in-law of Takhat Singh Sakhya who died after his oxygen ranges dipped to critically low ranges though his Covid check was adverse.
The nodal officer, Dr Yogendra Shrivastava, subsequently withdrew his resignation following intervention from the Health Minister.
The incident got here to gentle on Sunday when Dr Ritika Pandey posted the video that reveals a gaggle of individuals, together with Sharma and ex-corporator Guddu Chauhan aggressively approaching Shrivastava.
It reveals Sharma questioning the physician: “We need to talk to you, what is the problem in talking to us?”
The video reveals Chauhan shouting on the physician: “Why will you not talk to us? You have reduced us to a joke.” Shrivastava is seen making an attempt to clarify the state of affairs.
After the video was shared, the Chief Minister issued an enchantment on Twitter, saying folks ought to “behave as responsible citizens to uplift the morale of doctors instead of diminishing it.”
Later, Shrivastava mentioned that he had tendered his resignation. “The patient was brought in critical condition. We informed the family that his condition was so critical and there were not enough beds available. But he was in such a critical state that he could not be transferred. I treated him to the best of my ability and yet we are treated like this,” he mentioned.
But even because the video went viral, the spouse of Sakhya, 30-year-old Manju, was left watching an unsure future after cremating her husband. While Sakhya labored at a photocopy store, Manju is unemployed and now has to take care of their three kids — they keep in a one-room home in Kolar Guest House Colony.
According to her, her husband was “healthy until two days ago” when he returned dwelling with fever and cough. “He took medicines from a local doctor who suggested that we get a CT scan. But his uneasiness increased with pneumonia-like symptoms and we were told to get him admitted to a government hospital. On Saturday, he could barely keep his eyes open when we got him into an auto and rushed him to JP hospital at 9 am. But they turned us away, saying doctors were not available,” mentioned Jeevan Lal, a relative.
According to Lal, they approached a non-public hospital however had been turned away. “We returned to J P Hospital along with a friend, Rajkumar Saini, who is also a Congress worker. With Rajkumar’s help, we admitted him to the emergency centre at 12 pm,” mentioned Lal.
According to the household, the medical doctors began “forcing” them to take Sakhya to a non-public hospital. Says Saini, the Congress employee: “I reached MLA Sharma’s bungalow and made several calls to all the doctors, from CMHO to the civil surgeon but none of them took calls. After an hour, Sharma and Chauhan came to the hospital.”
Madhya Pradesh has, thus far, recorded 32,707 circumstances since February within the newest Covid surge. “When the Chief Minister is saying that there is no shortage of beds, why was the doctor asking us to take him away?” mentioned Rajkumar.
MLA Sharma mentioned: “Takhat Singh’s wife told us that doctors pulled out the oxygen after which he died. Under the circumstances, the anger was inevitable. Someone has died owing to poor medical treatment but no one is talking about it.”
When contacted, Chauhan mentioned: “When we reached the hospital, Takhat Singh’s wife was crying as he had already died. There is no one to listen to the poor. You lose your temper in such a situation.”
At JP Hospital, Civil Surgeon Rakesh Shrivastava mentioned: “Dr Shrivastava took his resignation back after he was informed by the Health Minister (Prabhuram Choudhary) that it was not the right time. The allegation about the hospital turning away patients is baseless as the patient was brought in critical condition with very low oxygen level.”

On Sunday morning, Sakhya’s relations positioned his physique in the course of the highway at Kolar Square as a mark of protest and refused to cremate him till Manju was given compensation of Rs 25 lakh and a authorities job. The protest was referred to as off after authorities assured that the calls for can be positioned earlier than the Chief Minister.