New Delhi|HL
Amid of corona crisis in the national capital Delhi the prestigious hospital Sir Gangaram is in news due to recent FIR filed against the hospital.
On the matter the senior consultant of Hospital Dr. Vivek Bindal shared his opinion with Healthlive and said “The hospital and its healthcare workers have been on the forefront of the coronavirus battle.
On May 3, 2020, armed forces of India felicitated healthcare workers of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital by aerial flower shower, flypasts of fighter jets and military band. At that time, the hospital was catering to around 40 COVID patients. http://healthlive.co.in/2020/05/03/covid-19armed-forces-felicitated-corona-warriors-of-sir-ganga-ram-hospital/
On June 6, 2020, Delhi government files FIR against the same hospital, when the hospital had more than 300 beds dedicated to COVID patients.
The healthcare workers, from housekeeping staff, to nurses and super-specialist doctors of the hospital, are shocked by this development.
The initial feeling of respect, which motivated them to put themselves and their families in the line of fire, has now been replaced by deep anguish and distress.
How and why did it happen? The doctors and hospital staff were working daily to save both COVID and non-COVID patients in this pandemic.
*Many of them and their family members contracted this virus and had to be admitted as they looked after the patients.*
But the policy makers and their political bosses, sitting in their offices, type orders to suit their public and media image.
*They stop testing, to decrease numbers artificially.* The hospitals then can not separate COVID patients from non-COVID patients, as they are not allowed to test, leading to cross infection to happen at a large scale.
They then stop testing before any surgery or intervention, overlooking the well-established fact that patients who have COVID infection are at a very high risk if they undergo any procedure, even if they are asymptomatic.
When the doctors try to tell the authorities about the fallacy of these orders, the government files FIR against the hospital.
This is going to kill the motivation of healthcare workers not only in Delhi, but across the country. Rather than helping the healthcare institutions tackle the pandemic, government is trying to shift the blame of inadequate healthcare infrastructure to the doctors and hospitals.
Trying to shift blame on those who are working while risking their own lives, is going to make this pandemic worse.
Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (iMAS) &
Institute of Robotic Surgery (IRS), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,New Delhi.
Dr. Vivek Bindal
MRCS (Glasgow), MS (Surg), DNB (Surg), FNB (Minimal Access Surgery), MNAMS, FIUSSTF, FACS (USA)
Regent,Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (India)
