AHMEDABAD: Two men have been booked for fighting with two doctors at SVP hospital and forcing them to apologise for the death of their relative who was undergoing treatment there.
In his FIR with Ellisbridge police, SVP resident medical officer (RMO) Dr Kuldeep Joshi, 47, stated that a patient named Ushadevi Vyas, a resident of Pali in Rajasthan, had come to the hospital on March 12 midnight. During treatment, a doctor in the emergency ward, Dharmik Mankodia, told her relatives that the patient could die if she was not put on ventilator immediately.
At the time, Ushadevi’s relative Lalit Vyas allegedly misinterpreted Mankodia’s statement and began fighting with him, asking how he, despite being a doctor, could say that the patient would die.
Mankodia called his superior Dr Bhavesh Jarwani, a professor, to the emergency ward to tackle the situation. But Lalit continued to pressure Mankodia and Jarwani to tender an apology and did not allow them to shift the patient to a ventilator, alleged Joshi in the FIR.
Meanwhile, Lalit called another relative, Dineshchandra Dave, and continued fighting with the doctors on duty, Joshi alleged, adding, “As Ushadevi’s relative did not allow the doctors to keep her on ventilators, she died at around 11 am on Sunday. After this, Lalit and Dave began fighting with the doctors, blaming them for their patient’s death. They did not allow for the body to be sent for post-mortem examination. They also took away medicines worth Rs 5,000 from the hospital.” He later filed a complaint of obstruction in duty with Ellisbridge police.