Woman’s suspicious death, middleman menace
The National Human Rights (NHRC) has sought an action-taken report (ATR) within four weeks from the authorities of the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack on two issues, over the death of a woman patient under suspicious circumstance and presence of middleman inside various wards of the hospital. The Commission passed the order while acting on a petition filed of rights activist Jayanta Kumar Das.
One Damayanti (41) was admitted at the Neurosurgery Department of SCB on June 3 this year where the doctors fixed June 18 for operation of her neck to insert a plate inside.
The petitioner alleged that Damayanti’s husband Brahmananda Chakra reached near the operation theatre by 9.15am on June 18 after purchasing two plates for the purpose.
But a one hour before the operation a nurse gave two injections to Damayanti at a time following which she fell unconscious. later she died on June 19. The petitioner alleged that though the deceased’s husband went to Mangalabag police station to lodge complaint but the police declined to lodge the same.
Acting on an another complaint filed by Das the Commission too directed the hospital authorities to submit an ATR within four weeks on human rights violation at the hospital where middlemen with the help of doctors allegedly persuaded patients to get admitted in private hospitals.