Quacks kill 4 patients

[Snowy Owl]

Quacks kill 4 patients

Chronicle News Service
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20060915/1509101.htm

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Khargone, Sep 14: [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Patients in the area are suffering from viral fever and chickungunia and death toll is increasing continuously. Today 3 youths died in this region. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The patients were taking treatment from the quacks as a result 2 youths and girl lost their lives due to improper treatment.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The quack doctor gave injections to two youths in village Tema-Behrampur and a girl (21). All the three died. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to information, 18 years old Praveen was taking treatment through a quack who used to visit him and the villagers of village Tema-Behrampur near Khargone.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The quack Purushottam Yadav administered an injection to Praveen and after the injection Praveen felt swelling from waist to legs. His family members took him at 1 am to district hospital. There was lack of facilities of treatment so Praveen died in the morning at 8 am. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Praveen had been suffering from fever and joint pain. Though his family members took him to district hospital but in lack of facilities he died there.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A youth Mangilal of the same village had also died during the treatment of the same quack. Purushottam Yadav comes from Andad and treats the patients at the villages. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dr Ram Jaiswal who performed postmortem of deceased Praveen, said that he has died due to injection given to him in wrong way. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The kins of the deceased have registered a case against the doctor and demanded for investigation.[/FONT]

 

[Sharpe]

Re: Quacks kill 4 patients

Khargone is relatively near Ahmedabad, another city that we are watching closely. In both cases, the flu-like disease that is spreading appears to be very lethal. In Ahmedabad, their attention is on the elderly, while in Khargone it is on the youth. Here they say that it is because the doctor was a quack that the children died. Part of the reason they say that is because chikungunya is not supposed to kill, at least as far as they're concerned, so anyone who 'dies' from chikungunya was because of quackery. They describe the youth as having died with swelling from the waist to the legs. This could either be a result of heart failure or kidney failure. If it turned out to be kidney failure, it would be remarkably similar to the cases occurring in Ahmedabad. Regardless, more reports like this should be watched for closely. The disease situation throughout India and Nepal is rapidly accelerating downhill.