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| Kathmandu, Thursday December 19, 2002 Paush 04, 2059. |
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Fatal
negligence
We have read the
statement made by Dr Ashok Baskota in your paper last week in response to the case filed
against him and B & B Hospital. According to him our father Narottam Adhikary had
suffered from serious injuries during an accident in Nawalparasi. But we would like to
remind him that our father had only three fractures in his left leg and gashes in the
groin region, according to numerous tests and diagnosis made by a doctors’ team at B
& B Hospital on our father’s arrival there. Either they lied to us then, or they
are lying now. Dr Baskota admits that our father died because of septicemia, but we would
like to ask him and the so-called esteemed doctors that despite our father being on a
continuous dose of antibiotics, how he developed septicemia on the 6th day of his stay in
the hospital? Dr Baskota very confidently states that they made our uncle sign a document
which proves that our family was well aware of the risks involved in the surgery, but
everyone has to sign that document—be it minor or major surgery. Moreover, our father
lost his life not during the surgery but due to septicemia, which is a clear indication of
the recklessness with which he was given treatment in a top class hospital.
We would like to ask Dr
Baskota and other doctors: Can their conscience let them sleep at night because they also
know that it is because of their sheer negligence that we have lost our father?
Amisha, Aastha
and Apekshya |
