Outrage over patients treated under tree in UP

In a case of gross medical negligence, patients were treated under the tree in Mirzapur's primary healthcare centres. Locals have expressed concern over the poor health facilities and have sought action.

Mirzapur: With government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh lacking basic infrastructure, the doctors and nurses of the primary healthcare centres were seen treating patients under the tree in Mirzapur on Sunday. The family members of the patients are outraged over poor health facilities in government hospitals and were protesting against the same.

The absence of adequate health facilities in the government hospitals came to the fore when Shivshankar Col from Harsad village brought his wife to the hospital after the latter consumed poison as a fallout of family altercations. Col was left in a state of deep shock when the healthcare staff started his wife's treatment under the tree and continued it for two hours.

Furious villagers and the family members started protesting on the worsened health facilities following which Shivshankar's wife was admitted to the hospital.

Villagers alleged that the primary healthcare centres have been treating patients in such a manner for the past few days.

"The health facilities have worsened. We tried to stage protests in various hospitals but neither the administration nor any minister came to listen to our grievances," they added.

However, Chief Medical Officer Abhishek Jaiswal said that since the patient had consumed poison, we were trying to make her vomit outside the premises under the tree.

The protestors claimed that whenever they visit a government hospital for some treatment, the hospitals are short of medicines, and hence they have to buy medicines from private medical shops. Despite the availability of testing machines like x-ray machines in the government hospitals, they have to rush to a private hospital for these tests.