Indore administration has suspended licence of a private hospital temporarily after six patients admitted to the hospital died in the matter of few hours on Thursday.
The administrative action came on Friday after collector had sent a probe team into the hospital. The hospital was notified for covid19 treatment in the city.
The hospitals in Indore have been categorised in Red (covid19), Orange (covid19 suspects) and Green for general patients. The kin of the patient alleged that the hospital administration planned to turn the hospital into Green category one. As six patients passed away at Gokuldas Hospital one after another, on Thursday, the panicked kin of the deceased uploaded a video on social media accusing the hospital of grossnegligence.
Administration was sent into tizzy soon after and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath too had tweeted the video seeking action.After enquiry, the probe team ordered suspension of hospital licence.“The action has been taken after six patients died in the hospital in a single day on Thursday.
The first one died at 11.30am and from 3.40pm, three more had died in short duration,” Indore Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Pravin Jadia told the media persons on Friday afternoon.He affirmed the hospital now won’t be able to admit new patients and patients admitted here would be shifted elsewhere.
Including a patient in ICU, a dozen patients were admitted to the general ward in the hospital. The hospital wasn’t sealed on Thursday night due to the critical condition of the ICU patient, said the CMHO."We are probing into slackness charges from the hospital," Dr Jadia added.Earlier a team of senior physicians led by Dr Jadia and Assistant CMHO Dr Madhav Hassani was formed which had reached the hospital and seized the records. Despite informing the hospital administration, the management did not contact the probe team.
The kin of those died in the hospital in the viral video had levelled serious allegations against the private hospital with several of them alleging that their patients died minutes after they were stable and quite okay. There was no communication from the hospital administration concerned till the story was field.