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RANCHI: The 45-year-old mucormycosis patient, Usha Devi, who was operated at Rims on July 8 after the intervention of the Jharkhand high court, passed away on Sunday morning. After the news of Devi’s death broke, her relatives alleged negligence on the part of the hospital authorities, complaining that she had to wait for more than 50 days for her surgery.
Devi’s son, Gaurav Gupta, has demanded an enquiry alleging that his mother would have been alive had the surgery been conducted earlier. Gaurav has filed a police complaint at Bariatu police station demanding action against 11 doctors, including Rims director Dr Kameshwar Prasad and medical superintendent Dr Vivek Kashyap, for ‘medical negligence’.
Attendants of patients in need of blood at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) will not have to queue up outside the blood bank and deal with middlemen anymore.
In a bid to do away with blood agents, who often find gullible attendants and sell blood to them, the hospital administration has decided that only staff working in the blood bank will directly deliver blood to the patient’s ward on the basis of requisitions by doctors or nurses.
Earlier, an attendant of a patient in need of blood transfusion had to go to the blood bank, get the blood bag of the required group and carry it to the patient’s bed without any assistance from hospital staff. This process, doctors said, often led to overcrowding at the blood bank, which gave middlemen the opportunity to operate.
Ranchi: Incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, in an air ambulance on Saturday evening on the recommendation of an eight-member medical board comprising doctors of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), where he was undergoing treatment while serving prison terms in various fodder scam cases.
Accompanied by daughter Misa Bharti accompanied, Lalu was wheeled out of the Rims paying ward at about 5:15pm and taken to the Birsa Munda International Airport in an ambulance. Lalu’s wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and younger son and the leader of opposition in the Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, were also on the flight air ambulance that took him to the national capital.