It is common for a patient to die in a hospital. It is common to hear and see deaths from time to time in many hospitals. Therefore, just because a patient dies in a hospital, there is no need to get worry about it or give special reasons about it. But this story is different, so we decided to write about it. But it is our belief that you should not be worried about it, just as we are not worried about arriving at decisions or conclusions in any manner.
The reason for this is that at this time we are not able to reach a definite conclusion regarding the deaths of the patients or the incidents related with the doctors in hospitals. Also, we have even intervened in many crises caused by the spread of misconceptions about doctors in Sri Lanka. Dr. Shafi’s story is one such incident . Sometimes these things can be news created by someone. Sometimes it is very wrong to be involved if it is aimed at defaming a doctor or the concerned hospital .
We have to write something regarding the comments that many people have made regarding this story. Although there is no specific cause regarding the death of this patient, it is a very sad and tragic situation to have to take her dead body home on her birthday. We saw how the inmates of the house relations parents of the deceased expressed their different opinions.
she was treated in a private hospital due to some sickness, and the treatment was not successful, and after the treatment failed, she was admitted to a government hospital, and the patient died in the government hospital. The girl’s boyfriend had also used a special Facebook post. We do not know anything about the tests done on this patient or her medical condition. Therefore, we cannot say much about it. But many people had commented on this death. That’s why we decided to find out some facts about it.
It is said that after 17 days of marriage, she had to leave her life. It is said that this girl was admitted to a private hospital in Wattala for an operation to remove gallstones. It was noted on social media that an internal organ of her body has been damaged during this operation. It was also mentioned that this young woman passed away on the 27th while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit for nearly 25 days.
It was mentioned in the Facebook post that many people have complained about the doctor who allegedly performed the surgery on this girl, and some of them have said about loss of lives and how some people have become permanently ill due to the fault of the doctor in question. One of the comments mentioned below. We have noted it the same way, and even though they mentioned names of the whereabouts and the hospital or related places, we decided not to mention them. We are attaching the comments and removing the names of certain individuals or groups because it is against the media ethics.
The first comment
That man did the same to my brother. He didn’t even know he is being operated. He was told that some stones were removed during an endoscopy. After informing us this with in two to three hours time he was placed in the ICU. We tried to get him to a private hospital but not allowed. Finally, someone claimed to be a doctor called and told us that they were going to take him to the National Hospital for dialysis. If possible, come and take him to a private hospital. We took two ambulances. When he is shifteed to two machines, the pressure of our brother decreases. We were told that he couldn’t even move from the bed.
Finally, in the morning, we saw our brother was covered with a white cloth. We were outside and not informed anything until an attended told us when asked.
I am writing this story with great pain….’ There is a name of a hospital mentioned here, but we will remove that name.
‘Hospital is not a good place even for my enemy to go.’ The small window in the ICU where the patient could be seen was closed. He said that he did not understand what the doctor wrote about the operation. He scolded my brother for vomiting when he was asked to eat. The death certificate was written as a natural death. Will a 26-year-old die in a natural cause? They did not give the reports that we got through the private labs paying money, because they fear a law case would be filed.
The letter written to the director of the hospital by us because such thing should not happen to someone else but nothing known what happende to that letter till today. I have met many good doctors and nurses who respect their profession. But curse those who take their profession as a game and play with people’s lives. Let all ‘seven thunder bolts’ befall upon him who killed our brother. This girl has become another victim to this fellow like my bellowed brother.
Those people feel their pain it is very pathetic…..!
This is the next comment. We will not mention names again.
‘During my father’s operation, my father stopped breathing. This doctor did that too…’
A name of a hospital has been mentioned. It is a private hospital.
“Even during his stay in hospital as a inpatient,my mother and I went to the doctor twice through private channeling to request him to see the patient. My brother also has commented on this post. We have suffered so much…’
Another comment.
‘We also lost one of our uncles in that surgery. A man who had served the country. That doctor also removed our mother’s gall bladder. Several people told us that he is a confused character. Even while talking, I understood that he was a crack. I thought so at that time too. That man harassed my mother too much. That doctor removed colon cancer from our uncle. In that operation too, a tube leading to the kidney was cut and one kidney was inactive. Only 10 years life period was assured for him. Made one kidney good on one side and made sick on the other one on the other side…’
While we do not believe any of the above comments were premeditated, we do have some pictures on the Facebook account with evidence that they were mentioned by the people who posted them on Facebook, even though they were not with names. We don’t know if these are preplanned or designed, but we tried to find out about this through hospital sources.
We learned that the probability of this happening is very low. Generally, if a patient dies at the hands of a doctor, and if mistakes are made continuously by a doctor, they are of the opinion that the hospital and the hospital authorities are obliged to take measures such as removing him from the relevant department, removing him from the surgery department.
They are of the opinion that when a doctor performs seven to eight hundred surgeries in a hospital, one or two such unexpected situations are likely to occur.
But the hospital should know that if the same doctor keeps committing such mistakes, he should be punished immediately and he should be removed from the surgery department immediately. In such a case, the hospital was of the opinion that an accurate record of the patient’s death, the cause of death, etc., should be recorded immediately, and that the relevant departments should be informed that the patient had died.
None of this is the official opinion of the hospital. This is what they explained to us through our personal inquiries from the people connected to the hospital. If patients continue to die in this manner, the health staff is obliged to investigate it immediately. Also, there are officers appointed separately to protect their status of the hospital.
But because the writer has had to face similar experiences in the concerned hospital, and because the writer is a witness to very dangerous situations such as sterilization of such patients, the writer need not to find new facts of irresponsibility of the concerned hospital. The writer believes through experience that this is a possible occurrence.
However, whether it is true or false, the authorities should take immediate action without allowing anyone to talk about the problem. If this article is not enough to get you to take action, contact us immediately if you are worried because the names and where abouts are fictitious. We are ready to provide you with all the information you need. But if any person or organization has been inconvenienced by this article, if any mistake has been done , we have not made any suggestion or accusation against anyone. However, if you think you are at fault, it is your right to feel that way, and if you are right, we are sorry if you were hurt.
Geevana Pahan Thilina