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Journalist dies at Kandy Hospital, case records of over 3 years go missing
View(s):By L.B. Senaratne
A photojournalist who was admitted to the Kandy Hospital died, and his medical records had gone missing after he was admitted to the hospital.
Ariyawamsa Jayaweera, a long standing photojournalist who had been with the Dawasa group of newspapers and Lake House, was admitted to the Kandy Hospital through an emergency call to 1990 and his wife Dhammika accompanied him.
At the hospital’s emergency unit of the hospital, the file contain his case records from over the years was handed over to a nurse who was admitting him to the hospital.
He was wheeled to the ward and after he was at the ward the Medical Officer in charge wanted to know from his wife when he was last treated for any ailment and his case record if there was any.
His wife had told the Medical Officer that the entry case record had been given at the emergency unit. The Medical officer said “I am not interested as the file is not here” and he wanted to know what was the prescription given last.
His wife said “I do not know as I do not know what drug was given last.”
Mr. Jayaweera died two days later, but his case record from over the years had not yet been found at the Kandy Hospital. Where had the case record gone and how had it gone missing, his wife asked. She was bewildered as to how the case record from over the years had been lost. In this manner, at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital case records in certain clinics were destroyed and the original patients’ records had gone missing. Their argument was that they were sent to the university.
In most cases new prescription cards were inserted and the Medical Officers at the clinics found it difficult to find the original case records of patients. This leads to a number of difficulties for patients and Medical Officers in treating the patients.
What right do attendants and officials who were not Medical Officers have to decide the destruction of patients’ case records or send them to the university was a question that baffled many patients when they found that a new prescription was given to them at the clinics.
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