{"id":92331,"date":"2019-08-18T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92331"},"modified":"2019-08-18T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T21:46:25","slug":"state-of-affairs-in-general-hospital-ward-33-and-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/18\/state-of-affairs-in-general-hospital-ward-33-and-mortuary\/","title":{"rendered":"State of affairs in General Hospital ward 33 and Mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

This is a true story which can be vouched and also an open\nletter to the minister of health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two weeks ago a patient who was my own uncle named K V Nihal Sumanadasa was admitted to ward 33 with severe internal bleeding and diarrhea, by his son who worked in Japan as advised by a local GP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day he was admitted he was continuously purging and bleeding and asked for help to go to the toilet <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither doctors nor nurses have taken any action. He tried to walk himself and purged near the bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nurses were cursing \u00a0and an attendant mopped the area and did not bother to clean him<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He asked for a new cloth or a sarong and they rudely refused<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A neighboring patient gave him a sarong <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His son came to see him and found that his father was\ndying <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pleaded the nurses and the lady doctor and asked them to\ntake him to ICU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did not care <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His son tried to give him CPR by pressing the chest himself\nand he died within the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was asked to sign a paper when he was trying to take him to a private hospital before he died and he made some adverse remarks on the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were so angry and by force inserted some of their \u00a0remarks to cover themselves <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body was kept for almost a day for post-mortem<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had to wait in the mortuary and a low-level person who organises post-mortem told him that he needs a small gratuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without knowing what he expected, his son gave him few hundred rupees to expedite the speedy post-Morton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person has kept only 100 rs and returned balance\n to and told him sir you will need this to pay others in mortuary\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His son told me brother, I did not know that if the bribery\nat this level is 100 I can imagine what they pay the Doctor who does the post\nMortem\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Country needs a complete makeover <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera This is a true story which can be vouched and also an open letter to the minister of health About two weeks ago a patient who was my own uncle named K V Nihal Sumanadasa was admitted to ward 33 with severe internal bleeding and diarrhea, by his son who worked in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}