Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, Nov 08: A 70 year old patient at Primary Health Center, Rangat is crying for help as presently he is having Gangrene infection in left leg but there is no one to assist him to reach Port Blair’s G B Pant Hospital for specialized care.
As per reports, Somra Naik, the patient, is admitted in the PHC since more than a week and because there is no one to help him in this situation, he is virtually stranded at the PHC.
The retired staff of Andaman Public Works Department, Mr Somra Naik is said to be having a son but sadly he is unaware of his son’s whereabouts and only knows that his son is somewhere in mainland India.
Without anybody, the patient’s life is now ‘hanging in balance’ as the PHC cannot release the patient for further necessary treatment in Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Port Blair, until and unless there is someone to assist him.
According to the staffs of the hospital, who don’t want their name to be quoted the patient is suffering from ‘Gangrene’ and hence, his left leg has to be amputated immediately but a specialist only can take a correct call in this regard. But in any case he needs to be shifted immediately.
“This surgery can happen only in GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair and GB Pant Hospital do not accept referred patients without an attendant, hence, if nothing is done to shift the patient at the earliest, situation may further worsen,” the staff of the PHC said.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, Mr Senthil Kumar, a social worker of the area said that the patient is staying in the area after retirement and as there is no one for him in the islands, GB Pant Hospital must accept this case.
Andaman Sheekha tried to contact the Chief Medical Officer of PHC, Rangat but as mobile network is down in the area today, Andaman Sheekha couldn’t take his comment in this regard.
Hope that some NGO or Social Welfare Department will step forward to help the needy patient and get him treated at Port Blair. People of Andaman and Nicobar Islands had always come forward in such cases and in this case also it is expected that the old resident of Rangat will get a helping hand.
