Woman alleges negligence by Ganesh Das Hospital

SHILLONG: Another pregnant woman (name withheld) hailing from a village under the New Shillong Township has alleged neglect by Ganesh Das Hospital as she was ill-treated before and after the delivery of a premature baby.
Earlier, the hospital was in the news after a pregnant woman was asked to sit on a wheelchair which resulted in the death of the baby.
The woman said on Saturday at her residence that after she was taken to the emergency ward on August 27, no bed was given to her. It took some time for the attendants to provide a bed on the floor and there was no prompt administration of medicine for a long time. There was so much delay for the nurse to come even after repeated calls and lack of care and the rude behaviour by the staff added to the agony, she said.
The woman alleged that she was even accused of having AIDS by a male doctor. “The staff treated my body shabbily though I was profusely bleeding.’’ They also accused me of having thyroid. They administered injections which made my legs numb and painful,” she said. The husband of the patient was asked to clean the blood and other stains on the bed. (The lady delivered a stillborn baby on August 29.
“I am raising this issue so that what happened to me should not happen to others,” she said.
Portions of statement omitted
After an inquiry was ordered into the cases of neglect by the staff, the woman gave her statement to a doctor who carried out the probe.
The woman, in a written statement, alleged that some portions of her statement were omitted by the doctor and she realised it when the statement was read out to her.
In her complaint letter to the DHS(MI), Laitumkhrah, the woman said she had received a letter from medical superintendent, joint director of health services on September 19, asking her to appear before the medical superintendent, Ganesh Das Hospital to provide information regarding her case as she was admitted at the hospital on August 27 and having complications after she was pregnant for six months.
“I narrated that the nurses were late to arrive and they were rude. But the lady doctor who read out my statement did not mention the delay and the rudeness of the staff nurse,” the woman said.
According to the woman, when she developed pain, she called for the nurse and she never came.
“It was only after I told an elderly lady who was attending to a nearby patient that the nurse came. They even asked my husband to clean the bed and I was accused of having AIDS.
Though I had mentioned these in my oral statement, these portions were not read out to me by the lady doctor who took my statement,” she said in the written statement sent on Saturday.