A third year a resident doctor died of the dreaded Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (Congo fever) in Ahmedabad.
Dr Smiral Patel of V S Hospital, contracted this virus while treating a patient with unknown haemorrhagic viral fever. The patient was admitted in the hospital before 5 days and Dr. Smiral was looking after the patient.
Dr. Smiral was shifted to Sterling Hospital on 18th June where he died of CCHF.
Authorities at the V S Hospital have started checking up everybody who was in the team with Dr Smiral, and given preventive medicines to his colleagues, who had taken him to the private hospital and stayed with him.
Before one and a half year this virus was found in Kolat village of Sanand where a woman contracted CCHF. A nurse and two doctors also died while treating the woman.
Jun 29, 2012 @ 09:57:38
and ppl like amir khan tells indian doctors doing malpractice. actually the medical fees are high in western and uropian country because they following standard protocol, which is highly costly for patient. like using gloves during cheaking every patient,advice for more lab. test . while in india doctors gives drus to poor patient or just go for primary lab test ,and go for costly lab only when disese is not cure by drugs given b4. so its save almost 1000 rupees in comparison to usa/urope. out of 100000 it is best for almost all cases but for 5 to 10 cases such type of practice is fatal. in above case that resident doctor didint use special spactacle. i m also government doctor , our hospial never give us proper protection and materials like gloves,mask,hand cleanser(sterilium), even many times there is no proper water supply in our hospital(every 5th day). still v r working in such horrible situation.it is our job to save life so v must have to do it first at any cost.