All services at the Seti Zonal Hospital (SZH) were halted on Friday after relatives of a deceased beat up SZH medical officer Dr JB Thapa, accusing him of not providing proper treatment on time.
One Dipendra Ghimire, who was admitted to the hospital after being hit by a bus, died while being taken to India for treatment on Wednesday.
A bus hit Ghimire, who was returning home on his motorbike from Purano Bhansarchowk of Dhangadhi, at 9 pm on Wednesday. He was taken to SZH where Dr Thapa treated him and told Ghimire's relatives to take him to a hospital having the facility of a CT scan.
Injured Ghimire was taken to Kohalpur Medical College at 10 pm the same day but later died while he was being taken to Lucknow in India.
Some of his relatives this morning called on Dr Thapa at the emergency ward and beat him up, the hospital's medical superintendent Dr Arun Kumar Chaudhari said.
An emergency meeting of doctors was called immediately after the incident and the doctors demanded action against the guilty, a hospital source said.
Meanwhile, the relatives of the deceased are keeping his body at the entrance of the hospital and demanding compensation and action against Dr Thapa. They have also padlocked the entrance of the hospital.
"As there was no facility of a CT scan here, I referred the patient to another hospital," Dr Thapa told this daily. Security personnel have been deployed in the hospital for security.
Prem BC, a relative of Ghimire said, Dipendra died as Dr Thapa did not treat him on time and that the agitation was staged to protest against his "irresponsible act." -
The Himalayan Times
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