An average of three persons have died everyday at the AIIMS Trauma Centre in the past three years, causing up to over 3,000 deaths in the last three years, an RTI reply has revealed.
As per the reply given by Dr. Sanjeev Lalwani, the Central Public Information Officer with the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, 3,041 people died at the AIIMS Trauma Centre in the past three years with 1,530 of them brought dead or died in the emergency after initial treatment.
While 931 deaths were reported in 2009, the number rose to 1,098 the following year and in 2011 a total of 1,012 died in this hospital.
According to the reply, in the past three years 756 deaths have been reported in the neurosurgery intensive care unit of the hospital, followed by 536 deaths in the Intensive Care Unit, 91 in neurosurgery, 42 died because of pulmonary or cardiopulmonary failure, 29 deaths happened in the department of surgery and two deaths were reported from the Orthopaedics unit.
Ajay Marathe, a resident of Mumbai had filed the RTI application to know the details of deaths reported in this hospital dedicated to treat trauma cases.
Mr. Marathe said, “If figure of deaths in this hospital is scanned properly, then not only there is an average of three deaths everyday of which one at least has been brought dead or died in emergency after initial treatment”.
Keywords: AIIMS Trauma Centre, AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS deaths, hospital deaths
This is quintessential bad reporting. Where are the percentages and total persons admitted? Plain numbers don't mean anything unless the total number of admitted people are given. The reporter should have made attempts to gather that information before writing this up.
The facts are not at all shocking. The treatment given by the officials working there to the patients are so rude that only poor people who do not have any funds with them. The way they treat pregnant women & other patients as it is their fault that they have visited the govt. hospital. I believe that it is must that each & every citizen of india consider society as his/her associate.
India, its roads, cities and hospitals are a heap of excretion. No other country so dirty country in the world.
So? As population increases, so will deaths. And prominent hospitals will record the most because that is where people go. I don't understand the point about this article as well as the point of the RTI query. Why does this morbid chap want to find out hom many people are dying daily?
The above data doesn't mean anything.Any data should have some meaning to make infernce. It's not comparing any other national or international data.Does it indicate the lackk of care at AIIMS or just the critically ill patients being transferred there simply other institutes doesn't want to take the blame for the death.
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