A Kashmiri patient is fighting a grim battle of survival after suffering the brain stroke following surgery at a private hospital for treatment of his back ache issues.
Seventy two year old, Mohammad Muzafar Haji, is laid up in the hospital for nearly 28 days since the Kashmiri septagunarian went for treatment of his back issues to New Delhi. He has been on the ventilator support since then and is trying to fight off a grim battle for survival.
The family had referred the patient for basic medical care for back ache issues to the Max hospital in Ghaziabad where his condition deteriorated and he has now been shifted to the Lok Nayak hospital.
Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lok Nayak hospital, Dr P N Panday, said that the patient remains admitted at the Intensive Care Unit ( ICU) and was attended to by a team of doctors.
Assistant Professor, Dr Manoj Midha, said, " The patient was operated outside. The patient was having compression of cervical cord and it was operated and somehow patients consciousness was lost in the private hospital and then on emergency basis he was shifted to our hospital in ICU. He has got stroke on both sides of the brain and currently we are doing treatment for this,but the damage is there and it looks like irreversible damage in the brain."
The hospital doctors said that the surgeries should have been done in a gap of six months. Doctors said that the patient has been operated in spine whose "secondary impact has been that blood supply to both sides of brain has been affected."
Earlier after a spotlight on the plight of the family, the patient managed to get the ventilator support at the government hospital after he was shifted there from the MAX hospital.
Earlier Muzafar, a resident of Charar-i-Sharief area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district was admitted at the MAX hospital and operated on cervical and lumbar spine on 3 December. However the family said that patient was informed that he has developed lung infection at the private hospital and his treatment cost ran into several lakhs.
The patient walked to the hospital after boarding a flight in Srinagar even as he had remained bed ridden for sometime due to back ache.
Seventy two year old, Mohammad Muzafar Haji, is laid up in the hospital for nearly 28 days since the Kashmiri septagunarian went for treatment of his back issues to New Delhi. He has been on the ventilator support since then and is trying to fight off a grim battle for survival.
The family had referred the patient for basic medical care for back ache issues to the Max hospital in Ghaziabad where his condition deteriorated and he has now been shifted to the Lok Nayak hospital.
Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lok Nayak hospital, Dr P N Panday, said that the patient remains admitted at the Intensive Care Unit ( ICU) and was attended to by a team of doctors.
Assistant Professor, Dr Manoj Midha, said, " The patient was operated outside. The patient was having compression of cervical cord and it was operated and somehow patients consciousness was lost in the private hospital and then on emergency basis he was shifted to our hospital in ICU. He has got stroke on both sides of the brain and currently we are doing treatment for this,but the damage is there and it looks like irreversible damage in the brain."
The hospital doctors said that the surgeries should have been done in a gap of six months. Doctors said that the patient has been operated in spine whose "secondary impact has been that blood supply to both sides of brain has been affected."
Earlier after a spotlight on the plight of the family, the patient managed to get the ventilator support at the government hospital after he was shifted there from the MAX hospital.
Earlier Muzafar, a resident of Charar-i-Sharief area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district was admitted at the MAX hospital and operated on cervical and lumbar spine on 3 December. However the family said that patient was informed that he has developed lung infection at the private hospital and his treatment cost ran into several lakhs.
The patient walked to the hospital after boarding a flight in Srinagar even as he had remained bed ridden for sometime due to back ache.
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