RIMS stormed over Eliza death case
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 16 2014: Over the issue of Eliza dead case, the locals of Singjamei Mayengbam Leikai and Langol Laimanai have on Wednesday stormed RIMS hospital demanding for reimbursement of the hospital expenses incurred in hospitalizing Eliza at Shija hospital.

They have charged that Eliza died due to negligence of the RIMS doctors and also demanded an enquiry over the issue.

During the storming of RIMS, the JAC, the locals of Singjamei Mayengbam Leikai and the locals of Langol Laimanai have cried their lamentations by the knocking the gate of the RIMS A-block.

In the mean time, a team of Lamphel police arrived timely on the scene.

It may be mentioned that Eliza was admitted to RIMS Hospital on May 9 and gave birth to a baby boy through caesarean section the next day and Dr Trinity carried out the operation.

However, the couple had been told by Dr Nabakishore that Eliza would experience normal child delivery.

In the mean time, the baby was referred to a private hospital due to developing some complicacy and also Eliza's condition was becoming deteriorated.

Upon enquiring about the condition of Eliza, attending doctors asked Dinachandra to sign on a paper informing him that his wife might experience kidney failure.

After concealing Eliza's medical status for many days, attending doctors told Dinachandra that both the kidneys of Eliza were not functioning.

After many days of request to RIMS doctors, Eliza was at last referred to Shija Hospitals on May 29 and she died on July 10 at around 11 after a prolonged treatment at the hospital.

In this matter, the family members mentioned that Eliza's kidneys were normal before operation and added that the statement of the doctors of kidney failure is nothing but ploy to cover up their mistakes.

They further mentioned that Eliza died due to infection not of the kidney failure.

The family members also lamented that RIMS doctors are highly biased towards poor and downtrodden people and demanded for justice over the death Eliza.

The family members and JAC submitted a memorandum to RIMS director and the director has communicated that an enquiry will be done and the same copy of the memorandum are also forwarded to the Governor, CM, Home Minister, Health Minister and also Social Welfare Minister respectively.

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