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Nabarangapur, May 12: A Class-VIII girl of Nabarangapur district who is suffering from abdominal cancer was admitted in the district headquarters hospital Monday, thanks to the new collector Rasmita Panda for making immediate intervention after coming to know about her condition.
The girl Parvati Tanti who is presently studying in Kasturva Gandhi Girls’ School of Dabugaon block has successfully cleared Class-VII annual examination this year and been promoted to Class-VIII.
She had been suffering pain in her abdomen for a long period. She was first admitted in Christian hospital. After her examination, the doctors had found that she had developed a tumour inside her abdomen. The doctors had removed the tumour weighing seven kilograms through surgery. Thereafter, she was discharged from the hospital. But, after a few days, she again complained of pain in
abdomen.
On the other hand, the Christian hospital authorities had sent her biopsy to Ludhiana for examination. The biopsy report came March 11 and it confirmed that the girl was suffering from abdominal cancer.
After she was diagnosed with cancer, she was admitted in Nabarangpur district headquarters hospital. The girl’s family had also sought help from the administration for providing treatment to her.
The administration provided help to her family and made arrangement to shift her to Acharya Harihara Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) at Cuttack by a 108 ambulance April 27. It had also provided `5,000 assistance to her family from Red Cross funds.
The doctors of AHRCC had asked her father to arrange two units of blood for her. Accordingly, her father had arranged two units of blood for her but the hospital staff had not administered the blood to her. Even, the girl’s father had alleged that she was not given proper treatment.
Enraged over negligence of hospital staff, her family had taken her back to their home. The girl has been writhing in pain as she has not been provided treatment since then. Her abdomen has swelled up. Moreover, her defecation and urination has also stopped. Her condition has become critical.
But, her poor and helpless parents were not able to make arrangement for providing better treatment to her.
But, collector Rasmita Panda came to help her family after coming to know about the matter.
Panda who had recently taken charge as the collector of Nabarangpur, somehow, came to know about her condition Monday. Immediately, she directed the project director of Sarva Shikhya Abhiyan to immediately admit the girl in hospital. In compliance with her direction, the girl was first admitted in Dabugaon community health centre and then shifted to the district headquarters hospital.
While the collector had directed for providing proper treatment to her, the doctor who attended her pooh-poohed the collector’s direction by stating that if she had sent the patient, then she should arrange blood units for her.
The matter was immediately brought to the notice of the collector. It was not clear whether the collector had issued any further direction to the hospital staff after the incident occurred.
But, Tuesday morning, it was noticed that the attitude of the doctor had completely changed. A doctor of the hospital said that there is a need to administer two units of B +ve blood to her. But, the blood bank has not any B +ve blood unit. He added that the hospital authorities are making arrangement of donors for the purpose and the blood will be administered to her within two hours.
He expressed apprehension that the disease might have spread to her liver.
Collector Panda, therefore, directed the girls’ coordinator Rajalaxmi Panda to immediately take her to Cuttack and make arrangement for providing proper treatment to her. She also directed the health department to provide assistance to the girl from Orissa Treatment Fund.
