My Letter Published in The Frontier Post on Sunday 29th August 2010 Negligence of doctors? |
Mubashir Shaikh - Hyderabad |
| In a leading Sindhi newspaper, I read that, on 24th August, a woman died in Orthopaedic ward PMC Hospital, Nawabshah, and the relatives of that woman refused to take away the dead body by saying that the doctor injected her a wrong injection, and that has caused her death, we won't take the body until we get justice. If the relatives know about the right injection and the wrong one, then why did they came to visit hospital ? Relatives are neither doctors nor paramedical staff, then how does they know? We all know that education in our part of world is not that much good that an ordinary man declares an injection as right or wrong. The journalist who reported this news, should have described the condition of the woman (patient) plus the name of that injection which according to their relatives caused her death. By reporting the patients history and name of injection, that journalist would have enabled all the readers especially doctors, to judge that whether the drug (injection) was right or wrong for that particular condition of the patient.  This respected profession (doctoring) is losing its respect, not every doctor is careless, and doctor is also not the cause of every death. Our people and journalists should give them respect, otherwise if doctors will start taking actions in the form of protests then our people, including these journalists, will be the one most affected. |
Link: http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=le&nid=338
