MUMBAI: Three team of workers nurses from Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital, Jogeshwari, have moved the Industrial Court against the BMC difficult their suspension in the botched cataract surgical operation incident that resulted in various degrees of imaginative and prescient loss in seven sufferers. Alleging they had been made “scapegoats,” the nurses have asked for the suspension order to not be carried out.
After additional municipal commissioner IA Kundan submitted the final inquiry file into the incident on February 11, commissioner Ajoy Mehta had ordered fullfledged departmental inquiries against 8 BMC staffers and called for the cancellation of the registration of the honorary operating surgeon Dr Arun Choudhary on February 14. However, but even so the departmental inquiries, sister incharge Veena Kshirsagar and team of workers nurses Samruddhi Salunke and Dipti Khedekar had been placed under fast suspension for main breach in an infection control protocols and dereliction of duty.
On Friday, the nurses approached the courtroom, saying that the BMC, its commissioner Mehta, Kundan, dean of RN Cooper Hospital Dr Ganesh Shinde and matron Smita Deshpande have engaged in “unfair labour practices” by means of postponing them with no prima facie case of misconduct. The nurses mentioned the hospital didn’t have usual operating protocols for nursing team of workers in operation theatres (OTs). It mentioned the hospital didn’t follow the 1:3 nurse-patient ratio that has been laid down by means of the Medical Council of India. Their plea also alleged that the matron, who was supposed to take rounds of all wards and operation theatres, didn’t achieve this.
While Kundan in her inquiry file had found that the sister-incharge was no longer gratifying her tasks in making sure that all aseptic practices had been adopted in the OT, the nurses of their petition have countered this by means of blaming the BMC for its failure to offer educated manpower. The nurses mentioned that in the face of manpower shortage, they often confronted difficulties, some extent robotically delivered to the awareness of the matron and faculty management.
Putting the spotlight back at the surgical procedures and whether or not sterilisation protocols had been adopted the day earlier than the operations, the nurses mentioned the OT was wiped clean on January 3 and an infection control measures, together with fumigation, performed. However, the tube and sleeve of the phacoemulsification device (used to accomplish the cataract surgical operation) was used on a couple of sufferers regardless of the availability of recent units in the hospital. Their petition claimed the phaco tube was inflamed. Kundan, in her file, had mentioned the responsibility of sterilising phaco tubes lay with docs. The nurses also identified the hospital management had no control over the contractual employees, who're mainly assigned autoclaving and other sterilisation methods.
After additional municipal commissioner IA Kundan submitted the final inquiry file into the incident on February 11, commissioner Ajoy Mehta had ordered fullfledged departmental inquiries against 8 BMC staffers and called for the cancellation of the registration of the honorary operating surgeon Dr Arun Choudhary on February 14. However, but even so the departmental inquiries, sister incharge Veena Kshirsagar and team of workers nurses Samruddhi Salunke and Dipti Khedekar had been placed under fast suspension for main breach in an infection control protocols and dereliction of duty.
On Friday, the nurses approached the courtroom, saying that the BMC, its commissioner Mehta, Kundan, dean of RN Cooper Hospital Dr Ganesh Shinde and matron Smita Deshpande have engaged in “unfair labour practices” by means of postponing them with no prima facie case of misconduct. The nurses mentioned the hospital didn’t have usual operating protocols for nursing team of workers in operation theatres (OTs). It mentioned the hospital didn’t follow the 1:3 nurse-patient ratio that has been laid down by means of the Medical Council of India. Their plea also alleged that the matron, who was supposed to take rounds of all wards and operation theatres, didn’t achieve this.
While Kundan in her inquiry file had found that the sister-incharge was no longer gratifying her tasks in making sure that all aseptic practices had been adopted in the OT, the nurses of their petition have countered this by means of blaming the BMC for its failure to offer educated manpower. The nurses mentioned that in the face of manpower shortage, they often confronted difficulties, some extent robotically delivered to the awareness of the matron and faculty management.
Putting the spotlight back at the surgical procedures and whether or not sterilisation protocols had been adopted the day earlier than the operations, the nurses mentioned the OT was wiped clean on January 3 and an infection control measures, together with fumigation, performed. However, the tube and sleeve of the phacoemulsification device (used to accomplish the cataract surgical operation) was used on a couple of sufferers regardless of the availability of recent units in the hospital. Their petition claimed the phaco tube was inflamed. Kundan, in her file, had mentioned the responsibility of sterilising phaco tubes lay with docs. The nurses also identified the hospital management had no control over the contractual employees, who're mainly assigned autoclaving and other sterilisation methods.
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