Dibrugarh's Aditya Nursing Home Accused of inflicting "Untold Miseries" Upon Arunachal Patients

Pasighat, October 22, 2019:

Patients from Arunachal patients are complaining of suffering "untold miseries" and their caretakers have complained of getting "unruly treatment" from hospital staffs in medical establishments in Dibrugarh, Assam, including the Aditya Nursing Home.

Moreover, the medical establishments have been accused to keeping patients in the ICUs wantonly to squeeze more money out of them.

As per reports, a patient was forcefully put in the ICU even when there was no requirement for him to be put there.

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"We were becoming impatient, felt cheated and extorted money from us by the hospital management of Aditya Nursing Home of Dibrugarh in which patients from Arunachal get treated", said a Pasighat patient's attendant whose mobile phone was also damaged by a security guard in the ICU ward of the hospital.

As per Okong Megu, a patient's attendant who had taken his father for treatment at Aditya Nursing home recently due to a fracture in his rib, they were forcefully put in ICU ward where charges were ranging from Rs. 10,000-15,000 per night.

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Moreover, he says the ward boys and security boys kept asking for tips and upon seeing a notice of denying such tips to hospital employees and reporting the same to the hospital management, Megu had taken photographs and videos of an ICU security boy, but instead of shying away, the security guard snatched his mobile phone and damaged it.

Though he reported the matter to the hospital management the next day, his loss was not compensated. Feeling sad and ill treated, the patient and his attendant returned home back here at Pasighat and narrated the ordeal to this scribe.

The ordeal of Megu and his father is not the only case, as there are many such incidents reported by Arunachalee patients who go for medical treatment to Dibrugarh.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of Aditya Nursing Home, one Dipul Sharma said that the patients and their relatives or attendants have started the culture of giving tips and bribe to the hospital Aya, ward attendants, nurses and guards.

When asked about the allegation on hospital management for holding back the patients in ICU to make more money, he clarified that its the doctors who decide that as per the condition of the patients.

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