PHC Billyground nurse declares normal baby as ‘dead’
Trinath
Billyground, Mar 12: A deeply upset and crying father when removed the cloth, wrapped around the dead body of a new born baby girl, a few minutes before the burial, to his utter shock, found that the baby is alive and moving her lips.
Only few hours ago, one of the Staff Nurses of PHC Billyground had declared the baby girl dead and asked the parents to take away the baby. According to the parents, before release of the body no formality was done and the hospital authorities now say that they don’t have any idea when the body of the baby girl was taken away for burial.
Mr. Arvind, a resident of Laukinagar and father of the girl soon lodged a verbal complaint in Police Station, following which there was a chaos in the hospital. Angry villagers demanded justice and punishment for the Staff Nurse.
Soon the Joint Director of DHS, Dr. Tulasidasan and the DC of North and Middle Andaman reached the PHC from Mayabunder, to understand the ground reality.
After hearing from both side the DC accepted that the fault was from the side of Health Department and said sorry on behalf of staffs of the PHC. He reportedly also directed the Joint Director of DHS to submit a report by today evening and assured stringent action against the staff concern by tomorrow. The villagers also complained to DC about the arrogant behavior of Dr. Tulasidasan towards the public.
