Death of 85-year-old COVID patient at hospital triggers row
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The loss of life of an 85-year-old coronavirus patient at the District Headquarters Hospital right here within the early hours of Friday led to pressure because the relations, together with family members of a number of different sufferers, staged a protest, alleging negligence.
The well being officers mentioned that an ‘unruly mob’ barged into the ward violating the COVID protocols. Upon data, Chittoor Collector M. Hari Narayanan made senior officers rush to the spot and pacify the protesters.
District Coordinator of Health Services (DCHS) P. Saralamma instructed The Puucho that the patient collapsed when he was going to the bathroom within the early hours and died. “An unruly mob from Punganur rushed into the hospital premises, ignoring the COVID protocols,” he mentioned.
The relations of the previous man and family members of different sufferers present process remedy gathered in entrance of the hospital within the morning and staged a protest. They alleged that the sufferers weren’t being supplied with nutritious meals and that the workers pressured them to skip meals within the night time on a number of events.
The protesters attributed the loss of life of the patient to the neglect by the workers within the ward. It was additional deplored that the physique of the patient was left unattended for hours within the ward.
Meanwhile, Collector M. Hari Narayanan held an mergency assembly with the COVID Task Force personnel and mentioned {that a} high precedence ought to be given to tracing and testing of the contacts of the contaminated sufferers and triaging, aside from the correct medicine to the them.
COVID Control Room
Inspecting the COVID Control Room right here, the Collector enquired concerning the quantity of telephone calls being obtained from throughout the district. He mentioned that immediate assist was being prolonged to these searching for helkp of the centre.
The sufferers with respiratory issues are being shifted to the COVID Care Centres and hospitals and people below residence isolation have been strictly suggested to achieve out the triage centres for correct analysis and healthcare companies.
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