Puttur : After attending a free check-up camp at Panaje two patients have lost their lives due to doctors negligence in a Mangaluru Hospital on March 24.

The Panaje Primary Health Care (PHC) centre organized a free check-up camp under Vajpayee Health Insurance Scheme on March 10. A Mangaluru based doctors’ team assuring free cardiac treatment to the deserving they identified 27 beneficiaries who were later admitted in the Mangalore hospital.

Among them, 13 were admitted saying they needed to undergo angioplasty. One of the patient Poovakka had returned home after angioplasty at the hospital. She complained of heath complications and hence was admitted to a hospital in Puttur on Wednesday and she breathed her last in the Hospital.

Six other patients namely Kittanna, Kalyani, Sundari, Balakrishna Rai, Mudara and Mani who underwent angioplasty at the hospital too suffered other ailments. Sundari had her hand swollen, while Kittanna and Kalyani were unable to walk post treatment alleged public. An endosulfan victim named Haseena (10), one of the admitted patients, died in the hospital during the cardiac treatment.

The deceased is Poovakka (69), a resident of Bollimbala in Panaje. When her body was brought to anaje Primary Health Care, locals gathered and shouted slogans against the hospital. The raged locals also staged protest by blocking the private ambulance of Puttur hospital which transported Poovakka’s body to the PHC. The protesters also assaulted the District Health Officer who visited the PHC.

The police resorted to lathi-charge to bring the situation under control.

The public demanded the police to register a complaint of medical negligence in this connection.