Nursing Staff at Jodhpur AIIMS Protest Denial of Treatment to Wife of Colleague

The nursing workers of the establishment had final week submitted a memorandum to the director of AIIMS demanding an inquiry into the matter and stern motion in opposition to the physician, who allegedly refused therapy.

It has been every week since we had submitted a memorandum to the administration for motion, however no motion has but been taken. All of us have been working with black straps round our arms, stated the Secretary of Nursing Officers’ Welfare Association of AIIMS, Gulab Choudhary.

Superintendent of AIIMS, Arvind Sinha, stated that they’ve obtained the grievance and have been wanting into it.

“We have received their complaint and have been looking into it. It was nothing but a matter of miscommunication,

said Sinha.

Senior Nursing officer of AIIMS, Naresh Kumar Swami, had taken his 11 weeks pregnant wife to the emergency department of AIIMS on May 17.

My wife had been profusely bleeding. So being an employee of AIIMS, I rushed my wife to the emergency. But the doctor from the gynaecology department refused to take her for treatment after learning that we live in the corona hotspot zone of the city, he alleged.

Swami said that he pleaded with the doctor to attend to his wife, but citing COVID-19 policy of the hospital, the doctor advised him to take his wife to a private facility.

I kept rushing from one centre to other for the entire day but all in vain. Entire day and night, my wife kept suffering. Next day I managed treatment at a private hospital and took her there, said Swami.

But it was too late by then and the doctor at the hospital had to terminate the pregnancy. Accusing the AIIMS of dereliction of duty in the name of COVID Policy, Swami said that “had his spouse been offered well timed therapy, the kid may have been saved”.

If that is the therapy of the establishment with its personal workers, what seriousness may very well be anticipated from them for a standard outdoors affected person, he stated.

In their memorandum, the affiliation has demanded an specific coverage in order that such incidents don’t happen.

This is just not for the primary time. Many such incidents have occurred earlier additionally however no motion has been taken by the hospital administration, alleged Choudhary.