Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Feb 1: A patient, identified as Laxman Prasad, a resident of Bhuiyandih, died in want of medical attention at MGM Hospital on Saturday. He was taken to the hospital by advocate Anil Kumar Verma, his son Sourabh Kumar and a Sakchi Jail Chowk resident Ravindra Kumar. He had fallen unconscious on the main road near Jail Chowk.
On reaching the hospital, Verma requested the emergency doctors to attend the patient. The doctors however allegedly asked him to go out of the emergency and refused to attend the patient on call.
As the dispute continued for over one hour, the patient succumbed on the stretcher. He was pronounced dead later.
On receiving complaint against the said emergency doctor, the hospital superintendent said action would be taken against the guilty doctors for showing insensitivity to the patient
Dharmaraj Gupta, son of the deceased, said his father ran a PDS shop in Babudih. His father had set out for the hospital for a routine health check-up. Walking his way to the hospital, his father fainted on the road. He was taken to the hospital in an auto-rickshaw. Unfortunate as he was, doctors did not attend him in time, Gupta said.
