Congress leader Vishvendra Singh took to Twitter to claim that a pregnant Muslim woman was refused admission in a hospital by one Dr Muneet Valia in Bharatpur “because she was a Muslim.” He claimed that the doctor said she must go to Jaipur to get her checkup done since she is Muslim.
https://twitter.com/vishvendrabtp/status/1246352397489688577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Many social media users found it odd that the minister was accusing the doctor without any inquiry committee founding him guilty of professional misconduct. However, the transfer slip issued by the said doctor to the patient was soon shared by netizens which suggested a different story.
Journalist Soumyadipta shared the referral slip issued by the clinic which showed that the patient, the Muslim woman, was highly anaemic and on her 7th pregnancy which made it a complicated case.
Here's the complete story (the circled term G6P7, APH)??
This is a case of Antepartum Haemorrhage (APH) or bleeding prior to delivery.
The patient was anaemic & undergoing her seventh pregnancy.
Hence her case was deemed complicated.
She was rightly referred to a better hospital. https://t.co/QnSsmJSDcT pic.twitter.com/vjvtaXjxD6— Soumyadipta (@Soumyadipta) April 5, 2020
Note: The patient was referred to a better hospital to save the 7th pregnancy as the attending doctor clearly didn't have the means to attend the medical case. In such small government hospitals, there is only one attending junior doctor and doesn't perform complicated procedures
— Soumyadipta (@Soumyadipta) April 5, 2020
As per the referral slip, the patient was suffering from Antepartum Haemorrhage (APH), i.e. bleeding prior to delivery. She was anaemic and on her 7th pregnancy. Hence, owing to the complications of the case, she was referred to the bigger hospital in Jaipur since the clinic was not equipped to handle the complicated case.
Another social media user and a doctor himself, Dr Amit Thadani, also explained that the referral slip contained the words “no investigation available” which means this was an unregistered seventh pregnancy of the lady.
Note the words “no investigations available”. No ANC papers, unregistered seventh pregnancy, uninvestigated, with severe anemia and APH – this patient would be very high risk even in a tertiary hospital. https://t.co/jgUu803wTt
— Amit Thadhani (@amitsurg) April 5, 2020
A doctor said that the woman was 26-28 weeks pregnant and while normal pregnancy lasts 38-40 weeks. So it was indeed a complicated pregnancy which could’ve risked the lives of the mother and child.
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