Jamshedpur | Updated: May 23, 2021 08:21 IST 7 min read Why BJP will be unhappy with its Uttarakhand panchayat poll showing Gurcharan Hembrom was wheeled to an ambulance. Disha Patani's sister Khushboo goes on expletive-laden rant against Pookie At 3.45 pm on May 21, Gurcharan Hembrom, 42, was brought to Baharagora Community Health Centre (CHC), 100 km from East Singhbhum district headquarters Jamshedpur, after he suddenly collapsed at his village in Balijuri Panchayat, some 22 km away.
His oxygen saturation at 64%, he was put on oxygen concentrators on “full flow”. The level rose only till 76%; Hembrom lay “comatose”, according to doctors. At 4.15 pm, attendant Chandra Mohan Hembrom called 108 ambulance services to CRPF jawan shot dead in Haryana’s Gohana, days after brawl with village men during Kanwar Yatra get the patient transferred to MGM Hospital in Jamshedpur, around 100 km away.
The call centre staffer replied that an ambulance cannot be sent without a referral letter. Mohan got the medical officer, Dr Surai Mardi, to speak on his behalf. “I am the doctor here and his symptoms are of Covid-19. Send an ambulance,” Dr Mardi The response, though, was unfavorable. Mohan was asked to speak with the district Civil Surgeon, who assured to send help. At this point, electricity went off at the CHC and the oxygen concentrator machine stopped working.
It took more than five minutes to bring Hembrom back on oxygen support through cylinders. Renuka Chowdhury Slams Kiren Rijiju: “Don’t Preach, Control Your Own Party Anil Vij left seething again, Haryana BJP leaders rush to placate SC refuses to stay Madras HC order restraining DMK from using OTP veri^cation ‘Is he helping nations inimical to our country?’ asks BJP after SC raps Rahul Gandhi over remark on Aamir Khan’s team explains why a bus full of IPS officers arrived at his Bandra residence: ‘They requested a meeting with him and…’ At 4.45 pm, the ambulance, parked 100 metres away within the CHC premises, arrived near OPD and left with the patient at 4.53 pm.
Asked about the delay, Mardi called it a problem with the “system”. Read | Jharkhand removes quarantine rule for vaccinated health workers From lack of prompt services to inadequate resources and training, this in nutshell is the crisis unfolding in rural areas of East Singhbhum, state Health Minister Banna Gupta’s home district, and also the distridt one with second-highest caseload in the state, having reported 977 deaths and 3,012 active cases as on May 21.
Health Minister Gupta said: “The 108 ambulance system has been outsourced to a private company and they have been given certain directions. But if it does not function properly we will have a re-look. The 108 system is meant to cater to people in rural areas.” Supreme Court stays proceedings against Rahul Gandhi over remarks on The Supreme Court Monday stayed proceedings against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his remarks about Indian army during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
He said the authorities are working to stop rising profiteering in private hospitals, and check whether the situation of government hospitals can be improved. As for electricity, I have asked all block CHCs to give me an update whether concentrators are plugged on uninterrupted power supply lines and whether they have generators…. With limited resources, we are keeping the morale of our workforce alive until the fight is over.”
Told about the problems, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said: “We are reviewing the situation constantly and will work on it. We will start a door-to-door survey by May 25. We constantly ask districts (officials) to be empathetic.” In Pics: From Concept Supercars to Electric SUVs – Innovation at Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 A senior Health Department officer said a showcause notice will be sent to Baharagora CHC for problems faced by the Hembrom family.
On Thursday and Friday, The Sunday Express went to six of East Singhbhum’s 11 blocks and found multiple issues affecting infrastructure — as also a lack of Galaxy S25 series phones: Here’s a CES 2025: A quick look at some of the “My father died before we could go to Chakulia CHC,” Pramanik said. Earth, space, and beyond: 12 new Lunar Eclipse 2022 Read | PM Modi spoke his mann ki baat, did not listen, says Jharkhand CM Around 80 km from Jamshedpur, in Chakulia block’s Kaliyam Panchayat, Barun Pramanik, 21, said his father had fever and was initially treated by a former CHC doctor at a private clinic.
He said: “The doctor never asked for a Covid-19 test but He said the CHC did not give a vehicle to take home his father’s body. The administration has marked Kaliyam village as a containment zone after 67 people tested positive for Covid-19 after Pramanik senior’s death. While there are 10 oxygen beds available at Chakulia CHC, like with most other CHCs, many villagers said they don’t believe they would get help at the CHC level.
Supreme Court slams Rahul Gandhi over remarks on Army; stays At Kokpara village of Dhalbumgarh block, a patient named Devanand Hena struggled for two days to get a diagnosis done and was tested negative for Covid-19 on May 11. But as his condition deteriorated, the family left for Bharipada in Odisha for further treatment. He later died of Covid-19. In the same block in Narsingarh panchayat, Sambhu Shah was gasping for breath, having recovered from Covid-19 recently, when The Sunday Express was there.
As his mother, Janaki Bala Shah, lay in the ambulance, the nurse was still trying to Shah Rukh Khan thanks Shashi Tharoor for not using 'more magniloquent' language for his National Award win arrange beds in the ward and putting a concentrator in workable condition. Sambhu said: “The ambulance drivers did not touch my mother. Gasping, I lifted her and put her in the ambulance.” The ambulance driver said he was avoiding physical contact given the risk of catching the infection.
He added that they take care of patients, check their oxygen, and refer them to MGM in Jamshedpur, when required. In Musabani block of North Ichra Panchayat, deputy mukhiya Tulsi Bhagat lost his mother on May 17 — he said he could not arrange oxygen for her. The block has five oxygen beds in the CHC, and eight beds in the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) Hospital in Jadugoda.
Bhagat said he went to a medical store and borrowed a pulse oximeter to record oxygen levels — he found it deteriorating, and rushed for help. “I went to UCIL Hospital but they did not give me any bed,” Bhagat alleged. “I did not know if any services were available at the CHC. I rushed to Ghatshila and it took me three hours to get oxygen. “But my mother passed away…. We failed to save her.”
On Bhagat’s allegation that UCIL did not provide a bed, Deputy Commissioner Suraj Kumar said: “We need to see if he had conducted any test on his mother. Why would UCL not give a bed when it is a Covid-19 facility? The CHC has oxygen beds, Asked about Bhagat’s assertion that the UCIL did not provide his mother a bed, minister Banna Gupta said, “If it is true, then it needs to be investigated.”
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