Old man denied medical test by Ccpur hospital

From Our Correspondent

CHURACHANDPUR | Aug 26

A 78 year old, sick man hailing from Singat village was reportedly deprived of medical test at a facility in Churachandpur district hospital, forcing him to leave and do the test by himself at a private clinic paying the price triple times higher to that of the government hospital.

Suangin (78) from Singat, which is about 32 km from Lamka, had come for a check-up and was told by doctors to take the Rante Blood Sugar (RBS) and Kidney Function Test (KFT) at the district hospital last Saturday.

When he went for the test, the staff of bio chemistry department asked him to come on Monday, so he stayed at his daughter’s place. But to his surprise, he was again told on Monday to come the next day.

Since he was very sick and fragile, he approached the district superintendent. 

The district superintendent told the department technicians to take the test as the patient was weak and making him wait for more days will not be in the best interest of his health.

But on the contrary, the technician at the bio chemistry department became more aggressive towards him and allegedly told that that since they approach the MS, they will never do the test for him.

 The son in law of the patient, his friends along with local press men further took up the case to the MS, who became visibly upset that his request was negated by his own staff and promised that he will look into the matter. 

 On the next day, local press men went to inquire at the department as a man from New Lamka had also made complaints to the hospital authority that his blood test was wasted by the biochemistry department.

 While one of the lady staff was talking to them, another questionably took photos of the pressmen inside the biochemist room using her mobile phones which did not go well with the scribes who asked her to delete the photo. The pressmen also came to know that many ASHA workers also had problems with the department. 

It was also found that the department in charge, Dr. Prem rarely attends his duty and would be on leave for most of the days.

Many patients also narrated similar incidents of waiting for blood tests only to hear the technicians of biochemistry department telling them that they have not done the test and cannot avail the testing facility for them.