Many hospitalised after eating adulterated flour
A large number of people have been hospitalised across the city after eating adulterated flour (kuttu ka atta) during Navratri. The patients had common complaints, including stomach ache, nausea, diarrhoea and fever. Patients came in large numbers to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and Jagpravesh Hospital.
Hospital superintendents claimed that they opened their wards as soon as they started getting patients. When the wards got packed, then extra beds were laid in corridors and other places.
However, extra medical services provided by the hospitals were not enough in the view of mounting pressure of patients.
There are 10 beds in the isolation ward of Hedgewar hospital.
Four patients are sharing one bed. In the emergency section, four senior doctors, six junior doctors and six nurses were catering to the patients.
According to one doctor, more than 100 patients have been admitted in the hospital but they could not give medical service to all of them and many of them had to go back as the hospital lacked resources. In the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, many patients were lying in the corridors. Gayatri, a patient, was crying after a nurse inserted a glucose needle in the wrong vein.
Dr Rajpal of Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital said that over 83 patients visited the hospital out of which 53 were serious.
Others were discharged after preliminary check up. In the hospital, there is a 48-bedded isolation ward apart from orthopaedis, medicine emergency and the maternity ward.
Here, the youngest patient is four-months-old and the oldest was a 62-years-old. A 12 member team of doctors is keeping a watch on the patients.
Eleven people have been arrested so far in connection with the incident.
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