MOHONPUR, June 27 (TIWN): Primary hospital worker’s carelessness and ignorance turned a girl namely Shikha Das, D/O- Sudharanjan Das into dumb and as well as she has become physically handicapped due to which she is no more able to walk anymore. This tragic incident occurred at Matchari village, under Mohonpur on June 1st, when after becoming ill she was taken to the Primary hospital where she was administered with Anti-Japanese Encephalitis injection without proper medical check-up.

According to the reports Shikha Das’s mother Anita Das had been informed by the Angwanwadi Center teachers, where Shikha reads that she has become ill and duly she needs to admit to the hospital as soon as possible. Immediately she had been taken to the hospital by her parents.

Without proper checking Shikha had been pushed with Japanese Encephalitis by a lady health staff, which has turned her into dumb and physically disable. Such a wrong treatment once again proves the ignorance of the government employees, working in various hospitals of the state.

Moreover, when she was asked about the cause behind pushing the wrong injection, the health worker said in defense that this injection has been pushed for her safety, due to which she would not be attacked by such diseases in future. Now the question is instead of doing emergency treatment from which Shikha was actually suffering why she had been administered with Anti-Japanese Encephalitis?

At the evening when she was suffering from strong fever Sudharanjan Das was unable to take her to the hospital, due to the long distance between the hospital and his home. Accordingly on June 2, she was admitted to Katalmara Hospital. But she was not recovering from illness after 3 days of treatment at Katalmara Hospital. Immediately on June 6 she was referred to the G.B. Hospital.

 But after long 16 days of long treatment at G.B. Hospital when she was released, already she became dumb and physically handicapped.

However, it is worthy to mention here that such an incident of pushing wrong treatment to the patients here in Tripura is nothing new as during the year 2013 the Tripura government suspended four doctors and four nurses of a government medical college and hospital in Agartala after a patient's lower abdomen was opened and urethra operated on, instead of a mouth biopsy.

This was the first time that such a large number of health personnel in the state have been suspended. And such an unwanted act by a section of doctors of the state here had continued and the tendency prevails yet today.