CUTTACK: Tension prevailed at the SCB Medical College and Hospital here on Thursday following the death of a patient in the nephrology department, with family members alleging medical negligence.
According to hospital sources, Ramakrishna Mishra (45), a kidney disease patient from Bhubaneswar, who had been admitted on March 19, died of a cardiac arrest at around 5.45 am in the morning.
The deceased’s family members alleged that his condition had deteriorated on Wednesday night and despite repeated calls, the doctor on duty did not respond. The delay in attending to the patient led to his death, they alleged.
His family members claimed that when his condition deteriorated on Wednesday night, they had frantically rushed to the duty room and approached the doctor (a first-year DM resident doctor), but he did not turn up and attend their patient as a result of which he died.
On the other hand, the doctors alleged that after the death of the patient, his family members went on a rampage inside the duty room and assaulted Dr Anurag Senapati, a junior doctor, who reached there at 8 pm to take charge of the rotation duty.
Sources said, the situation turned violent with other junior doctors joining in the fisticuffs, prompting police to interfere and bring the situation under control. Following the incident, the deceased’s wife Ratnamanjari Mishra filed an FIR at Mangalabag police station alleging that her husband died due to medical negligence. On the other hand, the junior doctors have also filed a case alleging assault of their colleague by the family members of the deceased patient.
“Basing on the FIRs, two separate cases have been registered and investigation is on. The dead body has been handed over to the family members after postmortem. We are also verifying the CCTV footages and some video clips to ascertain the truth,” said police.