Online Reporter
MUZAFFARPUR. — A young man’s fractured leg was treated by tying a cardboard carton to his leg instead of a plaster cast in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur.
Nitish Kumar, who injured his leg after falling from his bike, was taken to a primary health centre in Minapur, where a carton was bandaged to his leg.
Mr Kumar was then moved to nearby Shree Krishna Medical College and Hospital College in Muzaffarpur.
Instead of taking off the makeshift splint and replacing it with a plaster cast, no doctor visited him over the five days he was admitted in the hospital, his family said.
Videos from the hospital show the young man lying in bed in a corner of a room with the sheet of cardboard still tied to his leg with a worn out bandage.
According to Mr Kumar, he had gone to Minapur on his motorcycle when he fell from it and injured his leg.
His leg was tied with the cardboard carton at the health centre before he was sent to the hospital.
It emerged that the health staff used the cardboard as Plaster of Paris bandage – usually used on fractured limb – was not available at the health centre.
According to sources, due to unavailability of the regular plasters, the medical staff often use cardboard as temporary bandage when injured persons are brought to the hospital.
“This particular incident was revealed as a video surfaced on social media but such episodes have occurred earlier as well.
“If plaster bandage was not available, it is not the staff’s mistake. Question should never raised against those are responsible to provide medical kits to the hospital and management of the hospital,” said a medical staff requesting anonymity. — NDTV/indianewsstream.
