This patient – a programme officer in Aakashawani- was in ICU for a month and after three weeks when the patient was about to be released… got Pneumonia.
- Doctors and Nurses don’t wash hands every time they touch one patient after another. The same was true about tools like stethoscope, spatula etc.
- The pots for stool and urine are not cleaned completely and properly every time.
- For doing suction every time a new tube should be used. Relatives of the patients spend money and purchase new tubes but still the new tubes are swindled by staff and the old tube is used repeatedly. Not only this, the old tube is kept in the tray near by just like that.
- Doctors and nurses used the same hand gloves repeatedly in spite of patients relative providing new gloves time and again.
- The ICU has air-conditioning, which re-circulates the same air without purification.
After fortunately coming out all this, the patient felt "God is great" and so most of the patients are coming out of ICU without complications and fatality.
(Sakal weekly: Diwali issue, 2007)
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