MBS Hospital case: Lack of ambulance service leads to death of three patients

Three patients died as they waited for ambulances in Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital in Rajasthan's Kota. Satish Aggarwal, Kshetrapal Meena, and Sarita Devi would have been saved if the hospital authorities had paid attention to them and provided them ambulance on time.

Kota (Rajasthan): Three cases of patients' untimely death were reported from Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital situated in Rajasthan's Kota. The cause of the death of all the three patients was the same--lack of ambulance service. All three patients died while waiting for the ambulance.

CASE 1:

Satish Aggarwal, a 60-year-old man was suffering from Asthma. When his health got deteriorated, his son Manish Aggarwal called the ambulance. After waiting for an hour, he carried his father on a vegetable handcart, and walk for one and a half kilometres to reach Nayapura. His relatives in Nayapura arranged for an ambulance and took Satish to Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.

Manish Aggarwal claimed that had he got the ambulance on time, his father would have been saved.

CASE 2:

After Satish Aggarwal, Kshetrapal Meena, also a resident of Rajasthan's Fatehgadi, died of a similar reason. On May 3, Kshetrapal's health started deteriorating, after which his family called an ambulance but the ambulance did not arrive. After a long wait, the family members of Kshetrapal carried him on the same vegetable handcart on which Manish Aggarwal carried his father Satish. Kshetrapal Meena was taken to Rampura District hospital where doctors referred him to the Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

CASE 3:

A 71-year-old woman Sarita Devi, who had multiple age-related ailments died due to an alleged delay in the arrival of an ambulance from the emergency service response.

As per reports, On May 16, Sarita suddenly fell ill after which, she was examined by a family doctor, who gave her some medicines. But the impact of the medicines didn't stay much and her condition worsened following which the family took her to a nearby hospital in a two-wheeler, as ambulance services did not respond.

The doctors at MBS hospital in the region examined her and asked her family to do her ECG, X-ray and other tests. As soon as they reached the hospital with reports, they referred her to a district hospital for better treatment.

"We starting arranging for an ambulance as her condition is critical, but nobody came to our aid. I ran from pillar to post to arrange for an ambulance, while all this was underway my mother breathed her last outside the OPD ward of the hospital on a stretcher," said Pankaj Goyal, son of the deceased.