MAJULI: Tejaswita Baruah, a young singer of Dariyagaon in Majuli who had endeared fans through a local TV reality show recently, had collapsed on stage while performing a traditional Borgeet. The incident took place on October 4, during the celebration of the 574th birth anniversary celebration of Srimanta Sankardev. Following this, she was rushed to the Pitambar Deva Goswami civil hospital at Garmur. And she ultimately breathed her last in the hospital after about two hours.
The family members put the reason for death as medical negligence on the part of the hospital and inadequate resources. However preliminary reports suggest a history of cardiac problems since early childhood and a lapse in the administration of regular medications.
A Congress representative has posed a question on why proper emergency treatment was not being administered after reports of a lack of specialists on duty came to light.
Pollock Mahanta, the DC of Majuli District of Assam informed that there was no lack of oxygen or ICU beds at the time of the incident. Also, the specialist on duty had adequate experience regarding the matter but the patient was not reacting to the given medications. He however raised concerns about the lack of radiologists and doctors refusing to join the civil hospital. A proper investigation regarding the matter is still ongoing, he mentioned.
Assam Minister for Health and Family Welfare Keshab Mahanta also visited the Pitambar Deva Goswami civil hospital. He informed that the Managing Director of the National Health Mission and the Director of Health Services will oversee a detailed study of the available facilities in this hospital at the earliest. He agreed that several positions, including specialist doctors still remain vacant in the hospital and steps will be taken to fill them at the earliest. He also mentioned increasing the resources in the civil hospital to equip it for a general surgery unit.
Mahanta also spoke about the reluctance of doctors for posting in rural areas, thus refusing to perform their duty towards a large section of the state's populace.
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