Patient suffering from abdominal pain got no treatment
An irate mob ransacked a nursing home, set ablaze a motor bike and damaged a vehicle on its campus before staging a road blockade on Cuttack- Paradeep State highway at Rahama following death of a pregnant woman, who was undergoing treatment at the nursing home on Monday night.
Reports said that one Dipika Malick from Jailo village under Talapada Panchayat under Tirtol block had been admitted in a private nursing home at Rahama two days ago. She had delivered a female child on Sunday night after a surgery and was under medical supervision. However, when she felt pain in her abdomen on Monday evening, her kin called the nursing home authority seeking immediate medical help. But no doctor was present at that time.
Not receiving any medical treatment, the ill-fated woman died within a few hours.When the news of her death reached her village, hundreds of villagers from Talapada, Jailo and Rahama rushed to the nursing home and swung into worst form of vandalism.
Police moved to the spot and held discussion with the agitators, assuring lawful action against the nursing home authority. This made the agitators withdraw the road blockade.
Meanwhile, the nursing home authority and the kin of the deceased lodged complaints at the Tirtol police station against each other. Tirtol police station IIC Dayanidhi Nayak said a probe was on.