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Woman's death raises the hackles
Snehlata Shrivastav, TNN 22 August 2009, 06:25am IST
NAGPUR: The death of Sitabai Prahlad Khobragade in the isolation ward (swine flu ward) at 4 am on Friday at the Government Medical College and
Hospital (GMCH) due to complications like pneumonia, septicaemia, respiratory distress, kidney failure
and extremely low blood pressure has raised the fear that it could be the first swine flu-related death in the city.
Blood samples have been sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune and a report is only expected late Saturday evening at the earliest. Until then the 65-year-old is being termed only as ?suspected case?. Khobragade, who was referred to the GMCH from a private medical college on suspicion of swine flu-like symptoms, apparently had no history of any contact, direct or indirect, with any swine flu patient
in the city or elsewhere. Incidentally, most swine flu deaths that have occurred in the country have been due to not just the H1N1virus but also due to similar complications that Khobragade suffered from.
What?s cause for concern for those monitoring swine flue cases in the country is the callous approach of the doctors at the private hospital as well as the GMCH. Beginning from Khobragade?s postal address to the details of her family members and contact phone numbers, most of the mandatory data required to be maintained was not available with either the GMCH or the doctor treating her at the private hospital.
Either the address (plot number, locality and phone number) provided to the GMCH by the patient or her relatives was wrong or it had been recorded wrongly. The private hospital had not even bothered to take the proper postal address as it had just the locality?s name where Khobragade apparently resided. When TOI visited the address provided by GMCH (64/7 Parvati Nagar, Rameshwari Road) and found that another family with the same surname resided there.
Snehlata Shrivastav, TNN 22 August 2009, 06:25am IST
NAGPUR: The death of Sitabai Prahlad Khobragade in the isolation ward (swine flu ward) at 4 am on Friday at the Government Medical College and
Hospital (GMCH) due to complications like pneumonia, septicaemia, respiratory distress, kidney failure
and extremely low blood pressure has raised the fear that it could be the first swine flu-related death in the city.
Blood samples have been sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune and a report is only expected late Saturday evening at the earliest. Until then the 65-year-old is being termed only as ?suspected case?. Khobragade, who was referred to the GMCH from a private medical college on suspicion of swine flu-like symptoms, apparently had no history of any contact, direct or indirect, with any swine flu patient
in the city or elsewhere. Incidentally, most swine flu deaths that have occurred in the country have been due to not just the H1N1virus but also due to similar complications that Khobragade suffered from.
What?s cause for concern for those monitoring swine flue cases in the country is the callous approach of the doctors at the private hospital as well as the GMCH. Beginning from Khobragade?s postal address to the details of her family members and contact phone numbers, most of the mandatory data required to be maintained was not available with either the GMCH or the doctor treating her at the private hospital.
Either the address (plot number, locality and phone number) provided to the GMCH by the patient or her relatives was wrong or it had been recorded wrongly. The private hospital had not even bothered to take the proper postal address as it had just the locality?s name where Khobragade apparently resided. When TOI visited the address provided by GMCH (64/7 Parvati Nagar, Rameshwari Road) and found that another family with the same surname resided there.
