Friday, 13 OCTOBER 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claimed that a 13-year-old boy suffered 75 per cent burns due to electric shock on Wednesday but various major hospitals in Dehradun did not admit him saying they were not able to provide necessary treatment. The party has sought an investigation in this case and wants chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to act against the guilty officials. Addressing the media AAP leaders claimed that the child’s family initially took him to two prominent government hospitals- Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital (Coronation) and three private hospitals- Mahant Indiresh Hospital, Kailash Hospital and Himalayan hospital. Party leader Uma Sisodia said that the administration of government hospitals reportedly stated that they do not have the required equipment and doctors to treat the child. The private hospitals stated they did not have beds or enough space to admit the child, claimed Sisodia. She said that the parents of the child were stumbling from hospital to hospital to admit their child. She said that the child was finally admitted to AIIMS-Rishikesh late at night but the doctors there did not treat him. “The parents admitted the child to a private hospital around 2 AM on Thursday. After the doctors there failed to provide him with proper treatment, the parents planned to take him to Delhi for treatment,” she said. Sisodia asked how the State government consistently claims to have strengthened the healthcare system when such prominent hospitals failed to admit a child in an emergency. She said, “We want to ask whether these hospitals, especially government hospitals, were really not well equipped to treat the child or just did not want to. If a child living in Dehradun cannot get treatment in the State’s provisional capital, what people from other areas of the State should expect?”
