An instance of sheer mismanagement at Covid hospitals has come to the fore with a woman nurse afflicted with Covid-19 alleging that she has been administered Remdesivir injection twice in a day at a Covid hospital in Sambalpur district. Purnima Kumbhar, Cathlab in-Charge of Cardiology department of VIMSAR, Burla, alleged that initially staffs of the Covid centre administered her antibiotic Pipzo 4.5 gm after dissolving in a 10-ml syringe for two days. Ideally, Pipzo 4.5 gm should be given along with NS 100 ml within 15 minutes.
Kumbhar did not oppose the Covid centre staffs giving wrong doses of Pipzo 4.5 gm to her as it has minor side-effects. But on Wednesday, a female nurse of the Covid centre gave a Remdesivir injection to Kumbhar and kept Pipzo injection and NS 100 ml on her bed. The nurse asked Kumbhar to take the injections herself.“Few hours later, another female nurse loaded the Remdesivir injection in a 10-ml syringe and tried to give me the injection.
When I opposed and told her that Remdesivir injection was administered to me half an hour ago, the nurse argued with me. As I work as a health worker, I know Remdesivir can be given once in a day. The nurse pushed the syringe half way into me. When I opposed, she did not give the injection completely and left immediately,” Kumbhar alleged.