{"id":536,"date":"2014-02-27T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/elderly-woman-battling-for-life-after-botched-surgeries-at-skims\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:40:00","slug":"elderly-woman-battling-for-life-after-botched-surgeries-at-skims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman battling for life after botched surgeries at SKIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b>Srinagar:<\/b> An elderly woman is battling for her life after she was forcibly discharged from SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) following four botched surgeries, her family says.<\/div>\n<div>72-year old Qureshi Zainab was admitted to the Valley\u2019s premier tertiary care hospital on&nbsp;January 21&nbsp;for femoral artery thrombosis, Zainab\u2019s son Nazir Qureshi told GNS. Over the next month, doctors at the hospital including Dr Akbar and Dr Mohammad Amin performed four operations\u2014 angiography to remove clots from her legs and axillary femoral PTFE graft onJanuary 22, 24, 31 and February 5\u2014 upon her, he said.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cHowever, when my mother showed no signs of improvement and her condition worsened we informed the Control Room about the same on February 22. &nbsp;We were told that Dr Akbar, who had performed the main surgery, had gone on leave and that we should go to SKIMS Bemina for further treatment. Then, on February 24, &nbsp;&nbsp;Director SKIMS Dr Showkat Zargar, came to the ward where my mother was admitted and asked us to leave the hospital.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhen I refused, he threatened to lodge an FIR against me and directed the security guards to throw me out,\u201d he alleged.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe operations cost us around nearly 3 lakh rupees and then my mother was forcibly discharged from the hospital,\u201d Qureshi said.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cInstead of taking the doctors to task for the botched operations, Dr Zargar intimidated us and literally threw us out of the hospital,\u201d Qureshi alleged.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cMy mother\u2019s condition is worsening with each passing day. She was able to walk on her own before the surgeries but now she\u2019s permanently bed-ridden, all because of the negligence and highhandedness of the SKIMS doctors,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div>Director SKIMS, Dr Showkat Zargar was not available for a comment. &nbsp;(GNS)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: An elderly woman is battling for her life after she was forcibly discharged from SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) following four botched surgeries, her family says. 72-year old Qureshi Zainab was admitted to the Valley\u2019s premier tertiary care hospital on&nbsp;January 21&nbsp;for femoral artery thrombosis, Zainab\u2019s son Nazir Qureshi told GNS. Over the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}