The Chhattisgarh government has issued a show-cause notice to a leading private hospital in Raipur for allegedly forcibly discharging a sus...
The Chhattisgarh government has issued a show-cause notice to a leading private hospital in Raipur for allegedly forcibly discharging a suspected coronavirus patient without following due procedure. The hospital, however, claims the patient’s family took her away on their own accord.
The patient, a 37-year-old resident of Raipur, was admitted to the Ramakrishna Care Hospital, the city’s most advanced tertiary care hospital, at around 3.30 pm on March 17. According to her medical records reviewed by Scroll.in, her complaints included shortness of breath, fever and a dry cough.
Doctors at the Ramakrishna Care Hospital diagnosed her of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and viral pneumonia. While Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is characterised by acute breathing difficulties, pneumonia suggests a lung infection. The disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, has similar manifestations.
The hospital, the patient’s medical records reveal, sent her swab to Raipur’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences to be screened for the virus, while keeping her in an isolation ward. The swab was collected by officials of the state health and welfare department.
The same night, however, the patient was discharged.
‘Leave against medical advice’
The Chhattisgarh government’s notice states that the patient was evicted forcibly after doctors in the private hospital suspected her to be infected...
