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In this editorial, Mr. Nair discusses a tragic incident at a government hospital in Nanded, where 35 lives were lost, including 15 infants. The death toll at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded increased from 24 on Monday to 35 on Tuesday, with 16 infants and 19 adults among the casualties. Among the infants who died were twin boys born underweight on Sunday, and they passed away on Monday.
The Medical Education Minister, Hasan Mushrif, visited the hospital on Tuesday and, following discussions with doctors and administrative staff, acknowledged that a shortage of doctors was a contributing factor to the deaths. He mentioned that the government is planning to address this shortfall by hiring doctors on a contract basis until the vacant positions are filled through regular recruitment.
In another incident, 14 deaths were reported at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sambhaji Nagar, including two infants. However, the hospital superintendent, Dr. Vijay Kalyankar, stated that these deaths were not due to a lack of manpower or medicines.
Union Minister of State for Health, Bharti Pawar, has called for a report on the deaths in both hospitals and expressed her condolences, promising further action after receiving a detailed report. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has pledged a government investigation into the Nanded incident and vowed to hold the responsible parties accountable.
During his visit to Nanded, Mushrif was accompanied by Guardian Minister Girish Mahajan, former CM and MLA Ashok Chavan, and MP Pratap Chikhalikar. After the meeting, Mushrif indicated that he would raise concerns about the state of medical colleges and hospitals in the state, not limited to Nanded, at the next cabinet meeting.
At a press conference, Mushrif outlined the corrective actions his department intends to take to address and improve the situation. These measures include hiring doctors on contract, seeking assistance from doctors in other hospitals, and enlisting the help of private doctors. The government has also issued orders to expedite the recruitment of nurses and sanitation workers and explore options like outsourcing for filling class four positions.
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In this editorial, Mr. Nair discusses a tragic incident at a government hospital in Nanded, where 35 lives were lost, including 15 infants. The death toll at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded increased from 24 on Monday to 35 on Tuesday, with 16 infants and 19 adults among the casualties. Among the infants who died were twin boys born underweight on Sunday, and they passed away on Monday.
The Medical Education Minister, Hasan Mushrif, visited the hospital on Tuesday and, following discussions with doctors and administrative staff, acknowledged that a shortage of doctors was a contributing factor to the deaths. He mentioned that the government is planning to address this shortfall by hiring doctors on a contract basis until the vacant positions are filled through regular recruitment.
In another incident, 14 deaths were reported at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sambhaji Nagar, including two infants. However, the hospital superintendent, Dr. Vijay Kalyankar, stated that these deaths were not due to a lack of manpower or medicines.
Union Minister of State for Health, Bharti Pawar, has called for a report on the deaths in both hospitals and expressed her condolences, promising further action after receiving a detailed report. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has pledged a government investigation into the Nanded incident and vowed to hold the responsible parties accountable.
During his visit to Nanded, Mushrif was accompanied by Guardian Minister Girish Mahajan, former CM and MLA Ashok Chavan, and MP Pratap Chikhalikar. After the meeting, Mushrif indicated that he would raise concerns about the state of medical colleges and hospitals in the state, not limited to Nanded, at the next cabinet meeting.
At a press conference, Mushrif outlined the corrective actions his department intends to take to address and improve the situation. These measures include hiring doctors on contract, seeking assistance from doctors in other hospitals, and enlisting the help of private doctors. The government has also issued orders to expedite the recruitment of nurses and sanitation workers and explore options like outsourcing for filling class four positions.
#Nanded #Maharashtra #Shivsena #EknathShinde #NandedHospital #Devendrafadnavis #ajitpawar #ncp #bjp #hospital #governmenthospital #SujitNair #HWNews
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00:00 Namaskar. Welcome to another episode of Editorial.
00:04 The death toll in Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Hospital, Nanded has increased to 35.
00:11 35 deaths.
00:13 My colleague Shashank has done a detailed report on this. I will attach that report with my editorial.
00:19 But let's talk about healthcare.
00:22 Let's talk about healthcare system in India.
00:24 And let's talk about where did our government fail?
00:29 That's the topic tonight. Let's get right into the show.
00:32 Now the Medical Education Minister, Hassan Mushrif visited the hospital and he said that,
00:40 "Listen, the problem is because there were lack of doctors."
00:42 He accepted it.
00:44 He accepted that there were lack of doctors.
00:46 He also said that, "Immediately we are going to get doctors on contract to work in these hospitals
00:51 till such time that we bridge the gap. Till such time that we fill the vacancies."
00:56 Now the question is, why were these vacancies there?
00:59 The question is, were we bothered about this till such time that such an incident happened?
01:04 Administration is about checks and balances.
01:09 Administration is about ticking the boxes so that a standard operating procedure is maintained.
01:15 Administration is not waiting for a calamity to happen and then correct it.
01:19 That is not administration.
01:21 It can never be good administration.
01:23 If a calamity has happened, it has happened because of a bad administration.
01:27 It has happened because of bad administration and if you correct it later on, it is not good administration.
01:32 You just managed to correct a problem that you created.
01:36 Now I will tell you what I am trying to say.
01:38 What I am trying to say is, according to some reports, there were 15% vacancies in medical and administrative staff.
01:44 15% vacancies and nobody filled it. Why?
01:48 Why? According to WHO says that it is mandated that the doctor to people ratio should be 1 is to 1000.
01:57 One doctor for 1000 patients.
01:59 Now in Maharashtra currently, we have got 0.84 doctors is to 1000 patients.
02:03 Now one may look at it and one may say that, "Listen, okay, it's not that bad.
02:07 1 was there, now it's 0.84.
02:09 But let's not look at it that way.
02:11 Let's not look at it that way because I'll tell you the ratio of 1 is to 1000 in a place like Mumbai will be far higher.
02:17 Will be far higher in a place like Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and so on and so forth.
02:26 The ratio will be higher.
02:28 But in small places like Nanded, Parbani, Sangli, I don't know, these places the numbers will be lesser.
02:33 So there the numbers, the gap will be larger and here the gap will be shorter.
02:38 So therefore, if you look at it overall, yeah, it is 0.84%.
02:42 So let us not just go by that figure and say, "Okay, we are not that bad."
02:46 That may not be the true picture on ground.
02:49 That may not be the true picture on ground.
02:52 Now this is something that the administration has to foresee, has to foresee, has to warn, has to trigger alarms, red flags, that there is a problem.
03:03 We don't have doctors.
03:05 16 infants died for crying out loud, 16 infants.
03:08 Who is responsible for this?
03:11 You see, the point that I want to make is that we have a problem and the problem is that we couldn't care less when it comes to health.
03:21 We are more bothered about religion, who says what about what religion and which mosque and which temple and all that.
03:29 We couldn't care less for our health.
03:32 And that's precisely why a politician and the person who sits on our head as our rulers do not bother about your health.
03:40 I have been constantly talking about why health education is more important than anything else in this world.
03:47 But normally I don't get viewers either.
03:51 Normally I don't get viewers either because we are not bothered about our health.
03:57 Now, as much as the politicians, we are responsible to the families of those 16 infants, we are responsible because we have to answer them.
04:08 Because we chose our people wrong, because we were allowed that to happen.
04:13 I will give you some more examples.
04:16 You know, this is October 3rd story.
04:20 Parent of an 11-month-old infant, Taimur Mio, were aghast when he began foaming at the mouth.
04:28 They say that the child was given phenyl by the nurse instead of vitamin syrup.
04:34 Phenyl instead of vitamin syrup.
04:37 This happened in our hospital.
04:39 Okay, I will give you more.
04:41 A 17-year-old ailing child lost her life after she was thrown out of a hospital in Uttar Pradesh, Manipuri.
04:51 Her family members have alleged that the hospital had administered a wrong treatment to the ailing girl and the staff brought her out after her health deteriorated.
05:01 So, wrong treatment given to this kid.
05:03 This kid, when her health deteriorated, she was thrown out of the hospital.
05:06 Nothing happens.
05:07 You see, all this thing happens in India.
05:11 And the point is why?
05:13 Why? Because we keep quiet.
05:15 It doesn't matter to us.
05:17 We don't talk about it.
05:18 I will give you more cases.
05:20 A tribal woman was carried in a dholi, a makeshift stretcher, due to the lack of proper roads after she went into labor and gave birth in the transit.
05:30 When did this happen?
05:33 This was in the 18th century, 19th century.
05:36 This is the story of 19th century and it is still happening in 2023 in India.
05:40 We are Vishwa Gurus, they say.
05:43 Are we even serious?
05:46 Are we even serious?
05:48 A pregnant tribal woman from remote village of Bokaro district was carried in a cot by villagers for 3 kilometers where she gave birth to a girl but had to lose her child on the way during the journey.
06:02 In a cot.
06:03 2023 Vishwa Guru.
06:05 Moon. Chandrayaan.
06:08 I mean, look at it.
06:11 Is this not too India?
06:13 And this, more than blaming the politicians, blame ourselves.
06:17 Because we created that politicians.
06:19 We don't give impetus to health, so they also don't give impetus to health.
06:23 Have you seen a politician's talk in a rally saying that, you know what, I am going to give health, I am going to give hospitals.
06:28 He will give so many hospitals, he will put this much doctors, he will put this much nurse.
06:32 Okay, I am going to have this kind of hospital, this kind of medical college.
06:36 Out of this medical college, 50,000 doctors will be passing out in 5 years or 10 years and then these 50,000 doctors will go.
06:44 And if the politician says that nobody will sit in that rally, nobody is going to sit in that rally, they will all walk out.
06:49 They will say, what a boring topic.
06:51 Even if he says, that temple was ours, this was ours, then all of us sit and talk.
06:56 All of us sit and listen.
06:58 All of us sit and listen and that's the problem.
07:01 So here we are.
07:03 Why are we blaming the politicians alone?
07:05 We have a chalta attitude even when it comes to our life.
07:09 I mean, how worse can we get?
07:12 Even when it comes to our life.
07:14 I will give you some more examples before I get into some, I want to show you something.
07:17 Where rat nibbled into a patient's eye in the ICU of BMC Ram hospital.
07:22 The June story, 2022-2021.
07:27 So, all this and Mumbai, Mumbai, Mumbai Municipal Corporation Hospital.
07:34 All this happens.
07:36 See, the thing is very simple and the point that I wanted to make.
07:41 These are the hospitals that you see, these are the kind of public hospitals, government hospitals in America.
07:48 That's the picture you are seeing.
07:50 You will say, it's America, it's too big a country.
07:53 Let's remove that.
07:54 This is the picture that you see of a country like Thailand.
07:58 This is the picture, a government hospital in Thailand.
08:02 Look at the picture.
08:04 And now, this is the picture that you see of an Indian government hospital.
08:11 Do you see the difference?
08:13 So, what exactly are our priorities?
08:17 I don't ask the government this time.
08:18 I don't ask anybody. I am asking you.
08:20 What are our priorities?
08:22 Is our priority about how people talk about our dharma or how we build our temples or how we build our mosques?
08:30 Or is our priority to ensure that our children, their life is saved?
08:36 What is our priority?
08:38 Is it our priority to spend more money on advertising and saying how great our leaders are and how we are so good
08:47 that everything is like the golden days and all of that?
08:50 Is that our priority or is our priority to take that money and spend it on medicines, spend it on health care of a child?
08:57 How many more infants should die before we understand where we stand as far as health care is concerned?
09:03 I am sorry, I am a little emotional.
09:05 I am emotional because I have been talking about this for months.
09:09 Take any of my editorial.
09:11 Most of my editorial talks about health care.
09:13 Neither the public do anything about it nor the government.
09:17 Because unless and until we talk about it, unless and until we ask for it, you are not going to get it.
09:22 You are not going to get it.
09:24 And if these children lost their lives, we are equally responsible.
09:30 That is the point I wanted to make.
09:32 Before I end my editorial, a point of view.
09:39 You see, yesterday, 30 is what people put it as, 30 journalists were, they were visited by the Delhi police.
09:51 They were picked up from their homes, were interrogated in their houses.
09:55 They were interrogated in the police station.
09:59 The complaint was that the channel called News Click, they had some money from some sources which were anti-national sources.
10:13 They were being paying News Click for say, for spreading Chinese propaganda and that is why this entire action happened.
10:22 Now the point is, I do not know what is the story. I am sure we will come to know the actual story in a few days, months or maybe a year.
10:32 But what I wonder is what does a consultant journalist, a journalist who does one show in the channel, what has he or she got to do with this channel's funding?
10:46 The channel's funding has to be investigated, it should be investigated and definitely should be investigated. That is nice.
10:52 But what has that journalist got to do with it?
10:56 What have the journalists done? What have they done? How are they involved?
11:02 And if you really want to talk to them, interrogate them, ask them questions, call them, send them a summons, call them, ask them questions and send them back, that is the way it is, is not it?
11:15 Because end of the day, a journalist's work is in front of you.
11:22 The point is interrogating somebody whose work is in open forum, what is the point of interrogating and rounding up 30-40 journalists?
11:32 You see, what really happens is this gives a feeling that, it gives a feeling of intimidation.
11:38 And the feeling of intimidation is what is absolutely scary and that is what takes us close to fascism.
11:48 When a journalist is intimidated, then the question arises, is he being called because he has been funded by some anti-national elements or is he called because he is talking against the government and against the Prime Minister or against some leaders?
12:04 Is that the reason? Doesn't the question arise?
12:08 Why would the system, the administration, the government want such questions to be raised?
12:14 Then when the world says that there is a, we are low on our press freedom index, then how are they wrong?
12:22 That's the point I want to make because I didn't see the same zeal of going in the morning, picking the person up and taking him into the police station when it came to Brij Bhushan Sharand Singh.
12:38 He was accused for sexual harassment.
12:42 Yeh same zeal nahi tha.
12:45 This had same.
12:46 This was 6 o'clock in the morning, 8 o'clock in the morning, they were picked up.
12:50 So I wonder why this happens.
12:52 That's the question I wanted to ask.
12:54 So till I see you next time, that's tomorrow at 10pm.
12:56 Namaskar.
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