Angul: Even as a four-year-old boy of Madhapur area under Athmallik sub-division in this district got relief after having undergone excruciating month-long pain after a broken needle got stuck in his buttock, another five-year-old girl from the same district is not that lucky.
A man of Balugaon village of Kandhal panchayat in Talcher area had to return home with his daughter from SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) Friday after being denied treatment there.
According to the allegation of Niranjan Behera, father of the girl, the junior doctors at the SCB Medical College and Hospital asked him to take his daughter somewhere else, saying the treatment was not available there.
Behera said he is contemplating to knock the doors of law and human rights commissions for justice.
Family sources said, the child had had a broken piece of a needle stuck in her waist August 8. She has so far undergone two unsuccessful surgeries at a private hospital.
Later, Angul district headquarters hospital referred her to SCBMCH along with a letter addressed to the SCB superintendent October 11.
Behera had kept his daughter at the SCBMCH for two days. Finding no treatment coming her daughter’s way there, Niranjan returned home Friday.
When contacted, Angul DHH ADMO (Medical) Laxmi Narayan Bisoi said he was aware of it that the girl had returned from the SCBMCH without getting treatment. However, the family of the girl is yet to inform the DHH authority. “If they intimate us, we would again write a letter to the authority of SCBMCH for her treatment,” he said.
Notably, four-year-old Swayamjit Panda of Madhapur under Athmallick sub-division of Angul district had been suffering from agonising pain as a syringe needle broke off and remained stuck in his buttock for more than a month. The family members had brought Swayamjit to the Madhapur community health centre (CHC) twice seeking treatment. But each time the doctor and staff made them return home advising them to apply ice to get relief.
A part of the needle came out on its own Thursday and the remaining part was removed surgically.
PNN