Team Herald
PANJIM: A large number of COVID patients had to face an ordeal due to the insensitive and cumbersome manner in which they were transferred from the Asilo Hospital Mapusa to Goa Medical College (GMC) on Friday.
There was no care or assistance provided to these patients who were asked to vacate Asilo immediately without any prior notice.
What’s worse, some of these patients were sent without their paperwork that had their medical history. There was also no proper communication between Asilo and GMC, which resulted in the patients spending all day just to complete the formalities and paper work of finding themselves a bed, despite their weak health condition.
There were some patients who had to endure around 4 hours before they could finally be admitted to their new ward.
To start off, they were first sent from Asilo to GMC in the morning. Thereafter, they were put in an ambulance and sent to the GMC’s Super Speciality Block (SSB). However there was confusion as details of what mediation these patients were taking at Asilo were not provided to GMC. So they were sent back to GMC and asked to fill up their paperwork themselves, despite their weak conditions and that all their details were already filled at Asilo. Given that this was a transfer between government hospitals, the administration was criticised for putting these patients at further risk, who were already suffering due to the infection. Some patients finally managed to find a bed early in the evening as opposed to it being a smooth transition as stated by the Chief Minister.
