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Staff Report
A Kashmiri family has faced an ordeal in the treatment of their patient and to arrange a ventilator support in New Delhi.
The family had referred the patient for basic medical care for back ache issues to the Max hospital in Ghaziabad.
However the family said that instead of offering any cure after the patient underwent a surgery at the hospital he is now on a critical care at the hospital.
The patient, Mohammad Muzafar Haji, resident of Charar-i-Sharief area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district was admitted to the hospital and operated on cervical and lumbar spine on 3 December. However the family said that patient was informed that he has developed lung infection at the hospital and his cost runs into several lakhs.
The family has been trying to reach out to several hospitals for ventilator support but have been refused admission. The hospital officials at AIIMS and Safdarjung refused admission out rightly while they have not been able to find a ventilator also at several other government hospitals.
The family has been looking out for a ventilator support in several government hospitals, but couldn’t manage a one for several days. The family members said they were informed at the Safdarjung hospital by the staff that hospital was fully occupied. Their efforts to get a ventilator at the AIIMS didn’t materialize. Efforts to reach out to AIIMS director and Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung hospital were unsuccessful.
” Is there no ventilator in any of the hospitals in Delhi. Is situation so grim,” said a family member, Tariq Afzal. The family has given out their numbers as 9797281661 and 8825090978.
