NOIDA: Doctors at Noida's District Hospital appear to be referring sufferers without inspecting them.
A 17-year-old lady suffering from vertigo and headache since Friday, saved mendacity outdoor the hospital for over an hour after the doctor in-charge of the emergency ward requested her to go to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi without even inspecting her.
The hospital workforce did not even provide her a "referral slip", necessary for the ambulance carrier to move sufferers.
"Madhu has been unwell for the past one week. We got her checked up at a private hospital near our house but there was no relief. We took her to a private clinic in Khoda but they referred her to a higher centre," Javitra Devi, mother of the teenager advised TOI.
When they arrived at the hospital at 1pm, the doctor on duty within the emergency ward Usha Jaiswal requested lady's family to take her to Safdarjung Hospital, she said.
"The lady doctor present in the emergency ward did not examine her, she only saw her condition and asked us to take her to Delhi. No slip was made for referring her to the hospital and no ambulance service was provided," Javitri said.
The hospital which has been supplied with ambulances below the 102 and 108 services and products of the state govt, is meant to move the sufferers who've been referred to the "higher centres" via the latter.
"The hospital has two ambulances under 108 service," as source advised TOI.
However, after the incident was delivered to mild of the government by means of media, the pharmacist who got here within the emergency shift at 2pm, checked the patient register within the ward to search for her main points.
She only discovered that Madhu was not even at the listing of sufferers identified on Friday.
Upon insistence, she was later identified by means of another doctor of the hospital when he arrived around 2.30pm within the night OPD.
The doctor said that the woman didn't require any referral and has been given drugs.
"I have given her medicines. It is not a case that requires referral to higher centre. In case, she does not feel any relief, she can come again for check-up," Dr Pradeep Shaidal advised TOI.
Chief clinical superintendent (CMS) Ajay Agrawal advised TOI that the sort of case had come in his realize on Friday too and he'll ask emergency clinical doctors to supply main points of the sufferers who've been referred by means of them within the recent previous.
A 17-year-old lady suffering from vertigo and headache since Friday, saved mendacity outdoor the hospital for over an hour after the doctor in-charge of the emergency ward requested her to go to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi without even inspecting her.
The hospital workforce did not even provide her a "referral slip", necessary for the ambulance carrier to move sufferers.
"Madhu has been unwell for the past one week. We got her checked up at a private hospital near our house but there was no relief. We took her to a private clinic in Khoda but they referred her to a higher centre," Javitra Devi, mother of the teenager advised TOI.
When they arrived at the hospital at 1pm, the doctor on duty within the emergency ward Usha Jaiswal requested lady's family to take her to Safdarjung Hospital, she said.
"The lady doctor present in the emergency ward did not examine her, she only saw her condition and asked us to take her to Delhi. No slip was made for referring her to the hospital and no ambulance service was provided," Javitri said.
The hospital which has been supplied with ambulances below the 102 and 108 services and products of the state govt, is meant to move the sufferers who've been referred to the "higher centres" via the latter.
"The hospital has two ambulances under 108 service," as source advised TOI.
However, after the incident was delivered to mild of the government by means of media, the pharmacist who got here within the emergency shift at 2pm, checked the patient register within the ward to search for her main points.
She only discovered that Madhu was not even at the listing of sufferers identified on Friday.
Upon insistence, she was later identified by means of another doctor of the hospital when he arrived around 2.30pm within the night OPD.
The doctor said that the woman didn't require any referral and has been given drugs.
"I have given her medicines. It is not a case that requires referral to higher centre. In case, she does not feel any relief, she can come again for check-up," Dr Pradeep Shaidal advised TOI.
Chief clinical superintendent (CMS) Ajay Agrawal advised TOI that the sort of case had come in his realize on Friday too and he'll ask emergency clinical doctors to supply main points of the sufferers who've been referred by means of them within the recent previous.
Noida patient referred to Delhi without examination, ambulance
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