The Global Hospital has been given notice by the Prayagraj Development Authority to vacate the building by October 28. The hospital gained notoriety for allegedly giving a dengue patient apple juice instead of blood platelets during a transfusion.
The building has been labelled as “illegally erected” by the city authorities. The hospital will probably be demolished. If the hospital is proved to be at fault, deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak has promised to take harsh measures against them. The platelet samples, he claimed, had been submitted for analysis.
“Taking cognizance of the viral video of Jhalwa-based Global Hospital offering ‘Mausambi’ juice to a dengue patient in place of platelets in the district of Prayagraj, the hospital has been immediately sealed and the platelet packet has been sent for testing. If found guilty, strict action will be taken against the hospital,” Pathak tweeted in Hindi.
Prior to that, the hospital was sealed because, in the words of Dr. AK Tiwari, Additional Chief Medical Officer, “some abnormalities” had been discovered during a preliminary investigation.
“The (CMO) chief medical officer ordered a probe after the patient died. In the probe, some irregularities were found. The hospital has been sealed till the probe is completed,” the additional CMO said on Thursday.
A probe has been launched, and after the investigation is finished, steps will be taken. According to the official, the complainant has filed an FIR.
However, the hospital’s proprietor, Saurabh Mishra, claims that the patient’s caregivers delivered the platelets.
“The attendants were given the slip to bring platelets. They brought five units of platelets in the evening. When three units were used, there was a reaction in the patient. We stopped the transfusion. The platelets that were brought by the attendants to the patient were transfused to the patient. It belonged to the SRN Blood Bank. The hospital has no responsibility for it,” he said.
The proprietor of the hospital said that the patient’s companions were in charge of bringing the platelets.
“We do not test the platelets that the attendants bring. How is the hospital responsible if the attendants fetch the wrong platelets? It should be the responsibility of the attendants to ascertain whether they are authentic,” the hospital owner said.
“We had referred the patient to a higher centre after the attendants requested to do so following the deterioration in the health of the patient. The patient had not died here; the death happened two days later in another hospital,” Mishra added.
A further probe into the matter is underway.