Rajdhani Express Blast
Horror in Dimapur hospital
Dimapur, Dec. 13: For the four injured passengers of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, the nightmare had just begun.
The horror of surviving the blast on the Rajdhani Express continued to haunt them at the Dimapur district hospital where they were admitted.
They could never have thought that after the physical and mental agony of the blast, they would have to suffer at the hands of doctors and railway personnel at the hospital.
The four were left waiting for nearly four hours before any doctor attended to them. Though critically injured, they had to tide over their pain with simple dressing and painkillers offered by the nurses.
Adding insult to their injury, the railway officials who accompanied them from Chongajan to Dimapur, forcibly took away the blankets provided to them at Chongajan, saying that these had to be deposited at Lumding.
Eyewitnesses said the personnel even tried to remove the blanket from Laxman Shah, who had suffered compound fractures on both his legs, but left after it got stuck to his profusely bleeding legs.
“The sight was inhuman,” one of them recalled.
The nurses gave the ailing passengers blankets, usually given to patients admitted in cabins, in this chilly winter.
Dimapur deputy commissioner Abhijit Sinha and superintendent of police S.R. Sarvanan, who rushed to the hospital, deplored the callous attitude of the doctors.
When reporters reached the hospital around 7.30am, there was only one senior doctor there and he, too, had arrived only after repeated requests from the authorities.
When medical superintendent Sukhato Sema learnt of the arrival of journalists at the hospital, a team of doctors suddenly materialised and started examining the injured.
Railway officials, including a doctor, accused the hospital of neglecting the patients.
The medical superintendent said they had been trying to arrange ambulances since 4am.
He claimed that their blood grouping had been done and blood was being arranged.
Posted On: The Telegraph
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Dimapur, Dec. 13: For the four injured passengers of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, the nightmare had just begun.
The horror of surviving the blast on the Rajdhani Express continued to haunt them at the Dimapur district hospital where they were admitted.
They could never have thought that after the physical and mental agony of the blast, they would have to suffer at the hands of doctors and railway personnel at the hospital.
The four were left waiting for nearly four hours before any doctor attended to them. Though critically injured, they had to tide over their pain with simple dressing and painkillers offered by the nurses.
Adding insult to their injury, the railway officials who accompanied them from Chongajan to Dimapur, forcibly took away the blankets provided to them at Chongajan, saying that these had to be deposited at Lumding.
Eyewitnesses said the personnel even tried to remove the blanket from Laxman Shah, who had suffered compound fractures on both his legs, but left after it got stuck to his profusely bleeding legs.
“The sight was inhuman,” one of them recalled.
The nurses gave the ailing passengers blankets, usually given to patients admitted in cabins, in this chilly winter.
Dimapur deputy commissioner Abhijit Sinha and superintendent of police S.R. Sarvanan, who rushed to the hospital, deplored the callous attitude of the doctors.
When reporters reached the hospital around 7.30am, there was only one senior doctor there and he, too, had arrived only after repeated requests from the authorities.
When medical superintendent Sukhato Sema learnt of the arrival of journalists at the hospital, a team of doctors suddenly materialised and started examining the injured.
Railway officials, including a doctor, accused the hospital of neglecting the patients.
The medical superintendent said they had been trying to arrange ambulances since 4am.
He claimed that their blood grouping had been done and blood was being arranged.
Posted On: The Telegraph
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