Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Acid used for delivery at state hospital, baby dies

Kabita Chowdhury TNN 03.11.2011


Lalbag: The horror tale with Bengal’s babies continues. A government hospital in Murshidabad district allegedly used acid instead of antiseptic during a delivery on Monday night. The newborn died and the mother is critical, says the family.
    Coming after a spate of crib deaths at the B C Roy referral hospital in the city and a hospital in Burdwan, the incident drew yet another shocking picture of health care in the state. 
    There were conflicting reports about the newborn’s death at Lalbag subdivisional hospital. While the mother, Sikha Bibi, insisted her baby boy was born alive and cried at birth, the hospital said he was stillborn. Sikha, however, said the baby was put on oxygen. 

    Even the administration spoke in two voices. The deputy chief medical officer health said a sweeper had “perhaps replaced antiseptic with acid” and that the woman was “slightly injured”. But the hos
pital superintendent said the family had got their own ayah, who administered an antiseptic. 
    Sikha’s private parts and her legs have severe acid burns and she is in tremendous pain, her family said. They were quiet for a day be
cause Sikha’s husband had not been able to arrive from Delhi, where he works. It was only when some local politicians learnt of it and demanded answers from the hospital that the incident came to light. 


Inquiry panel to probe baby death 
Lalbag: Deputy CMOH B P Sau said an inquiry committee had been formed under Lalbag subdivisional hospital superintendent Saswati Nath to probe the death of a baby that died after acid was used during delivery. He said action would be taken if the allegations were found true. 
    Sau sought to defend the hospital. “Sweepers had perhaps wrongly placed acid and the health staff took it to be Dettol or Savlon as they look identical. The woman received a little injury. I can say she gave birth to a dead baby,” Sau said. 
    The hospital superintendent said: “I have received a verbal report that someone had administered antiseptic lotion. She is not our staff. 
The patient’s family had kept an ayah from outside. We will send a sample of the antiseptic lotion for chemical tests to know what it was.”
    “Hospital nurses and ayahs washed Sikha with acid, which led to the baby’s death and left her with burn injuries. We demand the culprits be punished,” said Ashraf Sheikh, brother-in-law of Sikha, who sustained burn injuries when she was washed with acid during delivery. 
    Congress MLA Saoni Singha Roy has lodged a complaint at Murshidabad police station against the hospital authorities. “I will write to the health minister seeking compensation to the victim‘s family. The culprits should be given exemplary punishment,” Singha Roy said.

HOSPITAL 
HORROR 

Baby dies at Lalbag subdivisional hospital in Murshidabad on Monday night after mother is washed with acid instead of antiseptic 
12 crib deaths at Burdwan hospital last week 
State’s only referral hospital B C Roy reports 13 crib deaths in the same period 
On September 24, a nurse swabbed a patient with acid instead of spirit before an injection at SSKM hospital in city 
In 2004, a patient in a Howrah hospital was given acid to drink when he asked for water 

Centre wants one baby care unit in every district Alarmed by the number of crib deaths in referral hopitals like the BC Roy hospital in the city, the Centre has asked Bengal and other states to open one state-of-the-art sick neo-natal care unit (SNCU) in each district. A 20-bed SNCU is equipped with a radiant warmer, phototherapy unit, pulse oxymeter, oxygen concentrator, multi-channel monitor, syringe pump and infusion pump. Each SNCU costs 1 crore and is funded by the Centre




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