Health staffers at hospitals in Nepalgunj have been accused of mistreating and neglecting hospital patients.

Dipendra Basyal of Birendranagar Municipality recalls one of his recent visits to Medical College Teaching Hospital in Nepalgunj.

After check-up, the doctor asked him to run a blood test. At the lab, when a health staff tried to draw blood from him and the syringe needle did not go in, he was treated very coldly. “When he could not find the vein, he got angry at me and indirectly implied that I should leave the place without receiving any treatment.”

Likewise, Sheetal Thapa of Rajhena VDC remembers a time when she had to spend a whole night on the balcony of Bheri Zonal Hospital. “I was at the hospital for delivery and a staff nurse showed me to the balcony saying all beds were occupied at the moment. But the next day another nurse came in and scolded me for blocking the way,” she said, adding, such treatment from health assistants is not good for the well-being of patients.

Likewise, when Dil Bahadur Tharu, 70, of Naubasta VDC asked for direction to the X-ray room, the health staffers of Western Hospital in Nepalgunj scolded him. “They scolded me saying how can an old man not know where the X-ray room is,” he said.

Basyal, Thapa and Tharu’s cases are only a few, patients and their kin are often mistreated and neglected by health staff at most of hospitals in Nepalgunj.

Saying that patients and their relatives do not deserve such inhumane treatment in hospitals where they come for recovery, Regional Director Murari Kharel of National Human Rights Commission said he would take the matter to higher authorities soon.

DSP Prem Basnet of District Police Office, Banke, however, said cases of mistreatment of hospital patients had not been reported in his office yet.”People would have launched protest if it was such a big thing,” he said.

Chief of Bheri Zonal Hospital Pitamber Subedi said the hospital takes the mistreatment of patients very seriously and will investigate such allegations.

Source: TheHimalayanTimes

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