After the death of Dikeshanath Yogi, the family has refused to exhume the body, demanding action from the doctors.
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A seven-member committee has been formed under the leadership of District Coordination Committee Chief Gaurinanda Acharya to investigate the death of a patient at the Karnali Institute of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital, Jumla.
A meeting between the family of the deceased, Karnali Institute of Health Sciences and stakeholders at the district administration office formed an inquiry committee. Badrinath Yogi, Dr. Sublime Bista, Purna Prasad Choulagai, Ratannath Yogi, Bishnu Bahadur Mahat. Meen Bahadur Rawal, administrative officer of the administration office, has been appointed as the member secretary. The committee will provide a factual report within 3 days.
17-year-old Dikeshanath Yogi of Hima rural municipality-3 in Jumla died on Saturday during treatment. The families and relatives are protesting with the demand of investigation on the doctors involved in the treatment, relief and compensation to the victims. They are not accepting to understand the dead body saying that he died after surgery in the case of normal stomach pain.
Nirmal Thapa, the doctor involved in the surgery, said that because Dikesh's intestines were upside down and black, the surgery He responded that he had to do it.
Dikesh was taken to the nearby Narakot Bazar Medical Center after suddenly having a stomach ache on 23rd May. He returned home after recovering from stomach ache.
On the afternoon of the 24th, when the pain started again, the family took him to the hospital. After treatment, the hospital discharged him saying that he was cured at 11 pm. The next morning at 8 o'clock in the morning, he was taken to the hospital again after suffering from stomach pain. According to the family, the hospital ordered an X-ray. And having appendicitis Recommended for surgery.
On June 26, Dikesh's first surgery was performed. However, there was no improvement in health. Father Jagatnath says that the patient started crying more and more. According to the doctor's advice, a second x-ray was taken on Dickesh's stomach. The doctor said that there was a lump in the intestine and asked for a second operation.
'We were shocked when we were told to do two operations for the same break,' said Jagatnath, 'We asked to refer our son to Kathmandu, but the doctor warned that if the second operation is not done immediately, his life will be in danger.'
Jagatnath says that he agreed for the second surgery due to compulsion. After surgery, Dikesh was kept in ICU. "After that, the doctors told us to take my son to Kathmandu, we were in crisis when we were unable to get medicine here," he said, "They even made a referral paper."
He took his sick son to Kohalpur Medical College only on 28th after not getting the ticket. 'The first operation of appendicitis However, they did not find any report of the second operation. They sent him to the place where the operation was done. Hearing the cries of his sick son, we returned to Jumla Hospital,' said Jagatnath.
The hospital has made it clear through a press note that 'after informing the patient's parents about the surgery and the complications of the disease, the surgery was performed on the 26th'.
