Reporters Club: Dhading Galcchi Ward no 4 resident Amar Pariyar has alleged that due to the gross negligence of the Director Dr. Jogeshwor Gautam, at the Thapathali based maternity hospital he has lost his son. Not only that, but he also alleged that his wife’s health has been permanently damaged.

Speaking at a press conference organized at the Reporters Club in Kathmandu, Amar said that “due to negligence of the maternity hospital staff and the Director Dr. Gautam, he has lost his son. We had constantly been in touch during the time of pregnancy and with their advice, we had proceeded accordingly and had regular checkups”.

Amar further said “even when the doctors there called us thrice a week, we were always there at the hospital. It was in their set date that we went to the hospital for delivery and during the initial tests both the Mother and baby were doing fine, this was also further stated by a foreign doctor present in the hospital and the reports were normal with no complications detected”.

When Amar’s wife was admitted for delivery on September 6th the staffs were irresponsible in their conduct alleges Amar. “I saw my wife’s health was deteriorating, and I called the nurses, but they were adamant and instead of calling the senior doctors, they began arguing with me”.

Recalling that day Amar stated ” My wife was losing a lot of blood, I had informed the nurses and the attendants regarding the same and requested them to call the doctor immediately, but instead of heeding to my advice they started an argument saying ‘ we know how to handle these cases better than you do’, the following morning I had informed the doctor as well but the person did not pay much attention to the situation.

My wife was taken to the neonatal ward much later, and the Doctor began the procedure, I was finally relieved but in less than a half-hour, the Doctor called me again and informed me that my child did not have a heartbeat and they would wait and try for normal delivery. The doctor called me again this time informing me that my baby had died and needed to be surgically removed, it felt as though my life had collapsed.

After the death of my baby, the Doctor further said that my wife’s kidney had failed, and she was kept in the hospital for two days. At the hospital’s referral I took my wife to Singamangal based Kathmandu Medical College, my wife’s situation is extremely critical. Both her kidneys have stopped functioning”. Amar said that since the maternity hospital was old, he felt it was trustworthy, and that is the reason he took his wife there for treatment. But due to gross negligence of the hospital, he lost his son, and now his wife is in an extremely critical condition.

He also says that it was the hospital’s fault for his wife’s renal condition, and he has asked to be duly compensated. He has already spent over 400,000 Nepalese rupees, and he is not financially strong. He has also requested the authorities to have an investigation into this matter and initiate action against the hospital staff and the Director for which he has lost his son, and made his wife critical.

KATHMANDU, Aug29: In what can be seen as complete incompetent callousness in part of authorities and the tourism administration, the death of guide Dhurba Bista has revealed the utter lack of humanity and self-respect even at its end. The family members of Dhurba have filed a complaint stating that his death was mysterious and mainly due to negligence. His death was also not revealed to the members in time for them to take any action.

An emotional Usha late Dhurba’s sister sobbingly in grief has requested that there be further investigation to the cause of her brother’s death. Speaking at a special interaction program at the Reporters Club today she requested everyone present to take note of her plight and extreme sorrow. “He died under unnatural circumstances and there is no evidence to actually prove that Dhurba who was a well-known mountain climber and an ace guide would have died due to altitude sickness. His death remains a mystery” she said.

(An emotional Usha broke down in grief speaking in reminiscence of her brother) 

Dhurba Bista is said to have succumbed from altitude sickness while they brought him to the base camp. He passed away on the 24^th of May this year. The post mortem report states death due to high altitude sickness although the family members aren’t convinced and looking back at his strong mountaineering history it directs them toward negligence and the entire episode is shrouded in mystery yet to uncover.

7 years of mountaineering experience along with guiding various high altitude climbers to reach their destination, it is extremely difficult for the family to believe that Bista succumbed to high altitude sickness. He was taken from Himalaya Trek in Thamel to guide a mountaineer to Everest which has a string of fatalities over the past year.

The government charges anywhere from 20 thousand US dollars, and they leave nothing for the guide, while if there is a death in such a case the compensation amounts to roughly 14 thousand US dollars for the guide, whereas for the trip the guide gets only one thousand dollars. The discrepancy of Bista’s death still remains while guides still are there endangering their lives only to receive roughly 10 percent of what is being charged.