A man wakes up after being declared dead

This is as careless as it gets. How can doctors be so careless. Such doctors should be stripped off from their medical degrees. Being a doctor how could you not know that whether a person is alive or dead.

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A man who had been declared dead woke up when doctors began to conduct his post-mortem examination in Jajpur district of Orissa, a media report said Monday.

Manas Deo was critically injured after a vehicle hit him Dec 25 near Baragadia village in Jajpur, Oriya daily Sambad quoted Manas's wife Tiki Deo as saying.

Police brought him to a local hospital where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
"It was a surprise for the hospital staff and family members after Manas woke up when the doctors began his autopsy," the report said.

Manas is now undergoing treatment at a hospital at Cuttack, 26 km from here. His condition is improving and he will get well in a fortnight, the newspaper added.

Source: www.prokerala.com, Jan 4 2009

Scissors taken out from man's stomach after two years

Recently watched a bollywood movie 'Kambakhth Ishq' where the doctor leaves a watch inside the hero's stomach during operation. I wondered what a silly concept to make a movie out of it. But something similar has really happened to a person in Raipur,India. Maybe the filmakers knew this story..

How can the surgeons be so careless.Just cannot understand.

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A small pair of scissors left in a 60-year-old farmer's stomach two years ago during an operation, leaving him in chronic pain, has finally been removed by doctors.

The latest surgery took three long hours and was conducted late Friday at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, about 40 km from here, senior surgeon D.C. Jain told IANS.

Jain said the patient, Dhruv Verma, a farmer from Bemetara village in Durg district. The scissors were apparently left behind by a private doctor in December 2007. "The patient is doing well and he is likely to be discharged within a week," Jain said over telephone. "The patient had been in unbearable pain for the last two years."

He said the scissors were stuck with the small intestine and it was a "risky operation" that was successful. Verma alleged that a doctor at a nursing home in Durg left the pair of medical scissors in his stomach during an appendix operation two years ago.

"After the operation I suffered severe and chronic stomach pain. The Nursing Home refused to pay attention, describing it as 'nothing major'," Verma said. "An X-ray recently confirmed the presence of the scissors in my stomach. Finally the Durg district hospital doctors helped me out," he added.
--IANS

Source: www.newkerala.com, 02 Jan 2010

Woman walks 110 km in 15 days for medical help in Chhattisgarh

As the population of India is keep on increasing, the medical facilities in rural areas are becoming bad to worse. The governments negligence towards rural people's health is also to be blamed. If this keep on increasing, the life expectancy and death ratio will increase exponentially.

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Such is the state of medical care in Chhattisgarh that a woman had to walk 110 km for 15 days to reach a government-run hospital to get her burnt hands treated.

In September, Phoolwati, 25, and her husband Roop Singh were burnt when the kerosene stove burst in their hut in Bakalo village within the jurisdiction of the Kapu police station in Raigarh district. Sans any medical treatment, Roop Singh battled his burn injuries for a week and then died.

Phoolwati then found insects crawling inside her burnt hands and realised she had no option but to go to the district headquarters here and seek medical treatment. There was no government-run health facility nearby that could tackle her problem.

‘I did not have a single paisa to get treatment from any private doctor or to get into a bus so that I could come here. So I had no option but to walk the 110 km to get admitted to Raigarh hospital. I had found several insects in my burn wounds and the problem was getting worse every day,’ Phoolwati told IANS at the hospital.
Raigarh is 240 km northeast of state capital Raipur.

‘During the entire 15-day journey I begged for food from local people alongside the road. Here a worker in a medicine shop brought me to the district government hospital. The doctor here removed all the insects. Now I feel my injuries have healed a little,’ the childless widow said in between sobs.

A. Tirki, the doctor who operated upon Phoolwati, said: ‘Her wound was filled with dozens of insects when she came to me last week. I have cleaned up her wounds and hopefully within a fortnight she will recover. But she would surely have lost both her hands if she had reached the hospital even a week later.’

Source: trak.in, 20 Nov 2009