Mangaluru: Family members, relatives and friends of Mohammed Faizal (23) of Kotekar Beeri, staged a protest in front of Yenepoya Hospital in on Monday, alleging that he had died owing to negligence of the doctors.
Faizal had gone to the Arabian Gulf on employment about a year ago. He had to return home because of a kidney ailment and was admitted to Yenepoya hospital for treatment.
On Monday afternoon, alleged the relatives, the doctors had asked for blood for his dialysis. It was provided. When the patient died in the evening, the family accused that it was not given to him in time.
The crowd, numbering about 300, demanded action against the doctors. When enquired, the doctors said that the death had occurred in spite of transfusion of blood to the patient.
The patient suffered from a condition called chronic Kidney disease , he also suffered from acute Pancreatitis and septicemia.He has been explained that he has 90% mortality risk in a year, The patient party has signed all the informed consent on the case sheet. He was on dialysis since 1 year through a AV fistula which burst yesterday. The patient was irregular on dialysis and not following his recommended plan of 3 dialysis per week.. Hence was going bad, the patient party who claimed had no money , was given financial support from the hospital. For the last two days… Read more »
Dear Dr Nawaz, I have read your post regarding the unfortunate incident which resulted in anger of the client family towards the care givers. The obvious reason for the rude behaviour of the family was because of lack of effective communication between them and the family. The family did not accept the loss of a loved one and reacted the way they did. If good and skilled social workers were present, they would have helped the family to mediate with the treating team and get essential information from them which they would have explained to the family in a manner… Read more »
Firstly, according to Dr Nawaz the patient was on treatment since one year, how is this possible when he arrived here two and a half months ago, from the gulf. He left mangalore on July 18, 2014 for his job in saudi arabia. And he returmed on May 28, 2015 and was admitted to the hospital on this date itself for his treatment. Secondly, no financial support was given from the doctors. We paid all the hospital bills how others pay and are supposed to pay. Dr Nawaz should stop misguiding people. I urge you to first get your facts… Read more »