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This is an archive article published on June 14, 2009

Lack of ventilators at PGI?

A family from Yamuna Nagar alleged on Saturday that they had to discontinue the treatment of their newborn son at PGI’s Advanced Paediatric Centre...

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A family from Yamuna Nagar alleged on Saturday that they had to discontinue the treatment of their newborn son at PGI’s Advanced Paediatric Centre (APC) midway due to the unavailability of a ventilator for almost a week.

According to Surmukh Singh,grandfather of the ten-day-old boy,the newborn had developed pneumonia and severe infection following which the doctors at Yamuna Nagar referred him to PGI.

“We came to PGI on June 6 and for a week,I kept the child alive with the help of an ambu bag to facilitate his breathing. The child needed to be shifted to a ventilator,but we were told that no ventilator was free and we had to be admitted in the ward,” said Singh.

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He also alleged that it was a tedious process to get a discharge from the hospital as the junior doctors asked them to wait for a senior doctor. “I waited for an hour for the discharge after completing a series of formalities,” Singh added. The family has now moved to a private hospital in the city,where the child has been kept on ventilator.

The spokesperson of PGI,Manju Wadwalkar,said: “There is generally a lot of rush for ventilators at the hospital as the demand exceeds the availability manifold. We have to prioritise every case.”

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