New Delhi: A premature newborn allegedly lost his life due to unavailability of a ventilator at a government hospital in Delhi's Malviya Nagar last night. The baby was born around 5 pm on Thursday and was rushed to Safdarjung Hospital due to the lack of ventilators at the hospital.
The incident happened at Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Hospital. After the death of the newborn, the child's relatives are holding the female nurse hostage.
"A child who was born with a weight of around 1 kg and needed ventilation. We transferred the patient to Safdarjung Hospital since we do not even have ventilators.
In the midst of all this conversation, the child died. Dr Ashish and nurse Anuradha from our hospital went there. Dr Ashish was beaten up due to which he fled and the family took the nurse hostage," MS Madhav, the CMO of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Hospital told reporters here.
He further said that it was due to the issue of availability of beds, the Safdarjung Hospital claimed that they did not have a ventilator bed.
"When the staff of Safdarjung Hospital told the family of the child that you have to give consent that if something happens to the child, you will be responsible for it because we are going to shift the child to the general ward. They were not ready to give consent and in the meantime, the newborn collapsed," he added.
Local MLA Somnath Bharti, while talking to reporters admitted that the hospital does not have ICU facility, also there are many patients in the Maternity Department, even though there is no ICU for the children.
The unavailability of ICU is a longtime problem but no one looking into the matter, he added.
After this incident, the local MLA said that ICU will be arranged in the hospital by the end of 2020.
(Inputs from ANI)
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