Noida: Child falls off second floor, kin say three hospitals refused help

GREATER NOIDA: A two-year-old boy who suffered head injuries after falling off the second floor of their house in Dadha on Wednesday morning was denied treatment at three hospitals and two health centres in Gautam Budh Nagar, including Child PGI, before being finally taken in by Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital, his father has alleged.
This case comes days after a pregnant woman in Noida died after being denied treatment or “referred to” by eight hospitals.
Roshan said around 9am on Wednesday, his son Dev accidentally fell on a puddle of mud from the second floor of their house while playing and lost consciousness. “We rushed him to the local public health centre where the doctor advised us to shift him to a hospital. Then we took Dev to Ivory Hospital in Sector 36 where doctors gave him first aid and asked us to go to another hospital as they didn’t have MRI or CT scan facility.”
For the next six hours, Roshan had to ferry his son in an ambulance from one hospital to another — Community Health Centre in Bisrakh to Yatharth Hospital in Sector 110 to Child PGI — after each one turned him away on the ground that they didn’t have “the right facilities to treat the boy”. “Finally, we took him to Safdarjung hospital, where doctors admitted him,” he said.
The district administration ordered a probe on Wednesday evening after visuals of the man and the boy doing the rounds of hospitals went viral.
“Doctors at these hospitals checked the patient and since there were no MRI or CT Scan facility available, they had to refer him to other places. Ivory Hospital provided an ambulance and coordinated with other hospitals until Safdarjung hospital agreed,” said sub-divisional magistrate (Sadar) Prasoon Dwivedi. The sub-divisional magistrate added the boy is fine and recuperating from injuries at the Delhi hospital.
Ivory Hospital said, “We feared he sustained a head injury and so, asked the patient to get an MRI and CT scan done. As we do not have that facility, we had asked the patient to come back after the tests.”