The Covid patient was found lying on the ground, injured and bleeding, the family alleged.
Congressman TN Prathapan has written to Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja while seeking action on alleged lapses in treatment of a 67-year-old woman, a Covid patient. According to the patient’s family, they found her lying on the ground, injured and bleeding, at Thrissur Medical College.
Although the family has alleged that their hands were tied to the hospital bed, the hospital administration has denied the lapses, noting that the patient “was not tied, but was physically restrained on the advice of a psychiatrist, so that she was not will remove the cannula. ” .
The Congressional Leader, in his letter, has said: “The elderly woman was transferred from the first-line COVID treatment center to Thrissur Medical College on October 20 when the COVID and related mental illness worsened. The woman was forced to lie down. on a bed that had no side rails. Her hands were tied with a cloth to the bed. The old woman fell from the bed and suffered deep wounds to her head and face, with bleeding. “
TN Prathapan has alleged that Thrissur Medical College does not currently have the services of psychological counselors to treat patients with mental health problems related to COVID, and that although the family submitted complaints and photographs of the incident to various authorities, they were not has taken no action. taken.
Farooq, this elderly woman’s son-in-law, told NDTV that six of her family members tested positive for coronavirus and were admitted to different hospitals around the same time.
“Six of my family members tested positive, including my father-in-law. I was a bystander with my father-in-law in a private hospital. I received a call from the doctor at the COVID call center, where some of my family members were admitted, saying that my mother-in-law was being transferred to medical school. I gave permission. And the next day, when a relative went to see the patient, he found her on the floor, injured. A passer-by of another patient had done click on videos of his fall, “he alleges.
The authorities of the hospital of the Faculty of Medicine have affirmed that they are false accusations. “She was not tied down, but was physically restrained on the advice of the psychiatrist. This was to prevent the cannula from being removed. She fell off … it’s unfortunate that it happened. She suffered no deep injuries. There has been no lapse. We have filed a report detailed to the health minister, “a senior hospital official told NDTV.
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