The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) taking cognizance over the death of a patient due to non-availability of oxygen in Rajgarh district hospital asked the Collector and Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) to submit detailed report before it.
Motilal Kanwar aged 46 years resident of Devra Village in Rajgarh district of the state was suffering from tuberculosis and it was due to that that he was admitted in the district hospital on April 7, during this his condition deteriorated and he was put on oxygen and the hospital employees changed three oxygen cylinders within a span of twenty minutes but all the three cylinders were empty hence could not work. After that he was referred and one more cylinder was tried that too emptied within some minutes and due to lack of oxygen Motilal ultimately died.
Wife of the deceased Motilal accusing the hotel management of negligence hold it responsible for the death of her husband and demanded action against the management.
She alleged that despite lack of oxygen he was not discharged for three hours and when the relatives of deceased created ruckus than the hospital management came into action and referred him and the cylinder he was put on was also not having adequate oxygen in it.
Notably, on earlier occasion also a child died in the district hospital due to scarcity of oxygen. According to news oxygen cylinders are supplied in the hospital without calling tenders and without any checkup. Neither they are weighed on weighing machine not is there any machine through that it could be gauged that how much oxygen is there in the cylinders.