[Reader-list] Another life claimed by PMO.

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Mr Sengupta,
                 This is the height of insensitivity shown by the people in Uniform. One aspect is the power instinct shown by them but the other one is punishment usually without inquiries by seniors when the security is intruded.They can get way with the insensitivity as would be the current case but they can't escape punishment if it is the case of intruding into the security. The poor fellows take the obvious option.Can't blame them.Blame the PMO instead.
Regards, 
 
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Wed, 11/4/09, subhrodip sengupta <sub_sengupta at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> From: subhrodip sengupta <sub_sengupta at yahoo.co.in>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Another life claimed by PMO.
> To: "Readers list Yousuf Sarai." <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 9:59 AM
> Interesting Articles,
>  AM 
> Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at Chandigarh's Post
> Graduate Institute of Medical Research for 90 minutes today.
> So was Sumit Prakash Verma — only that this was the time
> it reportedly took the 32-year-old, suffering from kidney
> failure, to reach the emergency section of the hospital as
> personnel deployed for the PM's security sent his family
> from one gate to another. Verma eventually got there but
> didn't survive.
> In a statement later, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
> said it "is saddened at the death of a patient at the PGIMER
> during the visit of the Prime Minister... A full report has
> been asked for."
> The Verma family from Ambala Cantonment said they managed
> to get through the security cordon only after one of the
> security personnel got into their vehicle. Employed in a
> jewellery shop, Verma is survived by wife Richa and two
> sons, aged six and 12.
> The Prime Minister was at the PGI from 11.30 am to 1 pm as
> chief guest at the institute's annual convocation. The venue
> of the ceremony was Bhargava Auditorium, located opposite
> the emergency block of the hospital. A premier institute
> catering to the region, the PGI is visited by hundreds
> everyday.
> The PGI, meanwhile, denied the family's claim, saying no
> patient was denied entry from any gate, especially to the
> emergency. In a statement, the institute claimed Verma had
> been "brought dead" to the emergency OPD around noon. "The
> patient had a history of end-stage kidney disease. He had
> been on maintenance hemodialysis in a private hospital.
> Today he was taken to a private hospital in Chandigarh for
> hemodialysis, following which his condition deteriorated.
> When brought to PGI emergency, he was found dead."
> The Vermas have handed a written complaint to Director
> General of Police SK Jain, demanding action against
> securitymen deployed at the PGI.
> In a press released issued later, Chandigarh Police said an
> executive magistrate had been asked to conduct an inquiry
> into the matter but "as per the family and PGI doctors, the
> cause of death was complications arising out of diabetes and
> renal failure."'
> But Verma's relative Ruchi said: "My husband's uncle was a
> kidney patient for the last few years and was undergoing
> dialysis at a private hospital in Sector 35 (Chandigarh).
> Even today, we came for his dialysis. But the doctors there
> told us he needed to be put on oxygen and that later in the
> day he could be brought back for dialysis. But when we
> reached the PGI, nobody would let us in. It took us almost
> an hour-and-half to reach the emergency where my uncle
> started crying, saying he was in acute pain."
> Arun Verma, sister-in-law of the patient, said the family
> broke down on seeing Verma's condition and this finally made
> one of the private security guards take pity on them. "He
> sat with us in our car and took us to the emergency. I am
> sure if the doctors had attended to him in time, he would
> have been alive."
> Contesting the family's claim, the PGI said that from 10 am
> to 1 pm — around the time Verma was brought to the
> hospital — 40 new patients were examined in the emergency
> OPD. "All medical facilities in the PGI were functioning
> normally. At no point of time was any hospital facility
> closed," it said.
> Express News Service 
> 
> What happens,
> Well these guards like to maintain a Status, indeed, when
> some wrong kind of people are rarely interrogated, others
> would be stopped and harrassed for just arousing their
> animal instincts. I've seen them all. The problem is when we
> pay respect to Uniform's job, not risking to land up in
> Jail, be it wrong or lethally wrong. Not everybody likes to
> pick up a scuffle that
> is.....................................
> 
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