The Doctor's Negligence

Life has been tagged as the most precious & the costliest thing in the world. With a pandemic like COVID-19 spreading uncontrollably, the priority of every individual across the globe has been to safeguard themselves.

The only people who have been facing the deadly virus & death close to themselves are the ones staying on the front lines. They have been working tirelessly with the aim to minimize the loss of lives. In fact, in this process, a lot of Corona Warriors have laid down their lives while not having any selfish interests.

Although this fight is fought by each individual in different ways, the people employed as Sanitation Workers, Police Staff, Bankers, Essential Service Providers and the worst affected ones are the Healthcare Workers including doctors, nurses and all others.

I’d like to thank each one of these people who are diligent to deliver services in these rough times and especially the doctors.

With the mention of doctors, I’d like to thank them for the sacrifices they’ve made and also for the long unending shifts they are serving to keep the healthcare situation in control.

Keeping in mind the situation of the health sector, shutting down OPDs seems justified to me. But what is shocking to hear is that the top hospitals in Mumbai (I’ve concrete information only about them) have been denying patients in cases of emergency.

For instance, imagine being in Mumbai and suffering a heart attack (obviously this isn’t a foreseen medical condition) and being turned down by the top hospitals for treatment because they’re only treating COVID-19 patients.

Shocked?

Allow me to add that ‘for instance’ before the above-said incident was just added to make it seem like an example.

Read that again.

Yes! You read that right.

A few days back, a girl I know lost her father to a sudden heart attack because, guess what, the top hospitals in Mumbai denied him any kind of treatment. He couldn’t be saved because some doctors could not remember the Hippocratic Oath they took after becoming a doctor.

A 20-year-old girl is never going to forget that her dad could not even receive basic treatment when he suffered his first heart attack. And who knows this might even turn into psychological guilt.

Feel bile rising to your mouth?

That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling for some time now.

And a question I’m unable to find an answer to is how could the doctors say we can’t treat him when there was only a small span of time to save him?

If heart attacks could be foreseen, I’m sure they’d treated it using all their might. But the irony is in the middle of a pandemic, we have forgotten that emergencies don’t seem to look at times or situations.

After this incident coming to light, I have got a feeling that many such cases may have been gone unnoticed.

I don’t know if those hospitals or doctors would ever apologize or acknowledge the fact that they did wrong, but won’t be able to bring back a dead man.

NOTE: If you feel this case or similar cases should be brought to light, please visit my Instagram profile and sign a petition for justice for this one case that could also initiate to the discussion to deliver justice to a whole lot of families & the dead people who have lost their lives because of the negligence of the doctors.