[Resolved]  Shalby Hospital — Shalby Hospital-Medical and Management Negligence

Address:

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

In the wake of the recent happenings at Shalby Hospitals where the CCHF fever has caused the death of 3 people, kindly find the disclosure.

Reasons:

None of the ICU which is working in critical areas like the ICU have been given any Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that includes full body gowns, masks, gloves or eye goggles. The uniform worn was Dr Gagan was not even cleaned by the hospital authorities for days. Reason-COST CUTTING

The masks, head caps and gloves used are recycled which ideally should not be.

Inferior quality of Hand Sanitizer is used which does not control infections at all.

The patient who had the CCHF virus Ms Amina Momin who had been transferred to Shalby Hospital was not properly diagnosed from the referring nursing home.

The Administrator or so called Sr Manager-Clinical Applications Dr Santosh Gaadhvi who was responsible for the transfer of the patient did not intimate any medical staff in the Medical Intensive Care Unit that thee patient is infectious and all universal precautions need to be taken in her case.

The patient was not kept in isolation ward which ideally should have been done. This is the decision of the management of Shalby Hospital.

There is only one wash basin in the entire MICU that also in the Toilet, there is no extra wash basin.

None of the staff working is such critical areas are vaccinated for any infection. All hospitals mandatorily have to vaccinate their staffs who work in critical areas.

Even when Dr Gagan got sick, no precautions have been taken for other staffs.

Air changes should take place in the ICU at least for 8 to 10 times an hour so that old infected air is removed from it and new air is bought in, this will prevent infected air being in the same place. However this has not been done due to cost cutting, no air changes take place. There is no proper documentation maintained on this, it can be verified.

Whenever any critical care patient is transferred from on hospital to another, he is triaged, and after that only where he need to be admitted is decided, this was never done in case of the infectious patient Amina Momin who was infected with the virus, she even was having haemorrhage but was never kept in the isolation ward and was kept in the open ICU thus putting the life of the treating staff and other patients at risk.

Fumigation which ideally needs to be done in ICU to prevent infection was never done and even if done was only for an hour or two which cannot prevent any infection. The records on this can also be checked.

There is a gross negligence from the management of Shalby Hospital. The people who have to be made accountable for this are:


Dr Vikram Shah-Chairman and Medical Director
Dr Pankaj Doshi-Medical Director
Dr Medhavini-Medical Superintendent
Dr Nishita Shukla-OT Manager
Dr Santosh Gadhvi-Senior Manager -ICU