A meeting of officials of AMDA Nepal, camp management committee and family of the patient reached an agreement to resumes all medical services in the camp.
“Now we are working smoothly as before,” Dr Madhurima Bhadra, Program Manager of Bhutanese Refugee Primary Health Care Project (BR-PHCP) told Bhutan News Service, Wednesday.
According to camp secretary, Bhanu Dhungana, they were able to clear the chaos that resulted due to the death of a patient inside the camp. “Let me not elaborate it further since the case has been settled,” he added.
Except emergency, all health services in Khudunabari camp were halted last week following the death of Ganga Tiwari, 18.
Relatives and family of late Tiwari had claimed that she died due to negligence of the AMDA doctor deployed in the camp since she delayed her referral to Bhadrapur on time.
“Three youths manhandled our staff,” she said in a radio interview to Saranarthi Sarokar last Saturday. She also expressed that whole AMDA team in the project was saddened since it could not save the young patient.
“I share my condolence to Tiwari family and the whole Bhutanese community since they lost their daughter,” Dr Bhadra told.
“My doctor tried her best to save the patient,” she said, “But, no efforts proved fruitful.”
It was learnt that the alleged trio who manhandled the doctor admitted their mistake to resume all services in the camp.
According to Dr Bhadra, the hospital’s local staff decided not to attend their offices in the camp citing lack of security in their jobs. “Indeed, it was our compulsion to opt such a decision.”
Started from January 2001 as an implementing partner of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, AMDA uses Mechi Zonal Hospital, Bhadrapur and AMDA Hospital, Damak as its primary referral center :
By Vidhyapati Mishra, Kathmandu with inputs from Tilak Niraula, Jhapa.
