Doctors 'Give Up' On Other Patients
Doctors treating radiation exposure patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi say they have given up hope after the death of one of the patients.
Rajender Prasad, 35, a worker at a shop in the city’s Mayapuri scrap market, died after multiple organ failure at around 9.30pm local time at the AIIMS on Monday. He was moved there on April 13 from the city’s DDU hospital.
"He developed bilateral pneumonia and was exhibiting signs of kidney and liver function impairment. He was put on a ventilator on April 24," a doctor treating the radiation victims said.
According to doctors, another radiation victim Ram Kalap is critical and his blood counts have reduced significantly. He has been put on prophylactic antibiotic and anti-fungal agents.
"We have given up hope on other patients. It's only a wait and watch situation," says the doctors treating the radiation exposure patients.
"After one patient's death yesterday, all other patients are very depressed, we are now counselling them," the doctors added.
"There is hardly any literature on how to deal with radiation patients, that's our handicap. Cancer of the thyroid and blood pose serious danger for these patients," the doctors added.
Four other radiation exposure patients are still admitted in AIIMS, while Deepak Jain, the owner of the scrap shop from where radioactive material Cobalt-60 was recovered, is at the Apollo Hospital. Another patient Ajay Jain is undergoing treatment at Army Research and Referral Hospital.
Ten sources of Cobalt-60 had been found in the Mayapuri scrap market earlier this month and eight persons were hospitalised. One of them has since been discharged.
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