Pathetic condition of health service in Tripura exposed by the death of newborn baby in Kailasahar due to medical negligence
By Our Correspondent
Agartala, July 16, 2025
Despite tall claims occasionally made by the government the health service in Tripura continues to languish in pathetic condition in most parts of the state. This has come to the fore from the death of a newborn baby Kailasahar’s RGM hospital on July 11 night due to medical negligence. Giving details of the shocking incident sources from Kailasahar said that Bulti Debnath , a pregnant house-wife from Chhantail village under Kailasahar police station had been admitted to the RGM hospital in the evening. Having seen her symptoms Dr Chiranjeev Deb gave her medicine for delivery and waited sometime for labour pain to begin but since this did not happen he went back to his quarter , leaving the pregnant woman in charge of two irresponsible nurses Firdous Begum and Pinki Saha.
As pregnant Bulti Debnath developed labour pain her family members called for the nurses but they had fallen asleep in a room by locking it from within and did not respond. Since the condition of Bulti Debnath was getting precarious her family members called in the GDA worker Kakali Malakar to aid the smooth delivery. But being ignorant of the medical procedure Kakali applied force and got the baby out but the newborn was motionless. Bulti’s family members at once called in another doctor Dwaipayan Paul who examined the newborn and advised the family members to shift the baby immediately to the ICU of a private nursing home. This was done as advised by the hospital doctor but the doctors in the private nursing home told Bulti Debnath’s family members that the baby had been stillborn.
Sensing that a scandal would break out over the sensitive issue the doctors and nurses in the RGM hospital started holding internal meetings on how best to hush up the matter by giving a false version of what had happened. Shell-shocked by the delivery of a dead child, the unfortunate mother Bulti Debnath has sought intervention from the chief minister into this gross medical negligence that had led to the death of her child before its birth. Sources said that health service in Kailasahar is virtually on the point of collapse because of the dereliction of duty on the part of a section of doctors and nurses and either the health minister or the health secretary should look into the entire gamut of issues on priority basis.
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