Edited By: Pathikrit Sen Gupta
Final Up to date: January 24, 2023, 07:30 IST
Per week in the past, two ladies handed away after present process caesarean operations at Authorities Space Hospital in Malakpet. (Representational picture: Reuters)
Observers say the incidents are a stain on a state that’s identified for its personal healthcare services all around the world
Telangana’s well being division is going through some warmth lately, with a sequence of unlucky occasions coming to mild. Harish Rao, the nephew of chief minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, took over the portfolio in November 2021. Since then there have been not less than two controversial incidents through which ladies have misplaced their lives.
Throughout his predecessor Eatela Rajender’s time, the coronavirus pandemic had hit and the state authorities needed to battle allegations of oxygen scarcity in hospitals. This was earlier than he was unceremoniously proven the door by the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) over allegations of land-grabbing.
Earlier than that, botched surgical procedures at Sarojini Naidu Eye Hospital had left seven individuals blind in a single eye every through the time when C Laxma Reddy was the well being minister. His predecessor T Rajaiah was sacked over allegations of corruption within the buy of ambulances.
Within the newest controversy, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha chief G Srikanth Goud shared a video through which, he claimed, a safety guard was stitching the pinnacle wound of a person at Patancheru Space Hospital. After the video went viral, Harish Rao ordered a probe into the incident.
Per week in the past, two ladies handed away after present process caesarean operations at Authorities Space Hospital in Malakpet. 11 ladies had been operated on that day and two of them developed post-surgery problems. Whereas the kin allege that they died because of negligence on a part of the docs, well being officers say that they may have handed away because of underlying well being points. An investigation is underway.
In August final yr, 4 ladies died after sterilisation operations at a authorities hospital in Ranga Reddy district. The licence of the surgeon was cancelled and compensation was introduced for the households. The incident noticed opposition leaders demanding the resignation of the well being minister.
After the 2 ladies died every week in the past, Telangana Congress president Revanth Reddy mentioned that the well being minister and different officers needs to be booked on prices of homicide. BJP Hyderabad district president S Surender Reddy mentioned that essential gear was not working within the hospital.
In the course of the pandemic, well being minister Eatela Rajender got here beneath fireplace after he dismissed claims of oxygen scarcity in hospitals by saying that the issue was there all over the place. In mid-2021, the minister was compelled to resign after farmers in Medak district introduced allegations of land-grab in opposition to him. The senior chief, who fought alongside KCR for a separate Telangana state, is now within the BJP.
The incident at Sarojini Eye Hospital in 2016 despatched shockwaves amongst residents. The NHRC had despatched a discover to the state over the case through which seven individuals misplaced partial imaginative and prescient. It was allegedly because of an an infection attributable to a bacterial species current within the saline answer used through the procedures.
Observers say these incidents are a stain on a state that’s identified for its personal healthcare services all around the world. It’s a hub of hospital tourism the place sufferers from international locations like Bangladesh and Yemen could be discovered any day. Nonetheless, they are saying, it’s a unique story in government-run hospitals.
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