In the Bhind region of Madhya Pradesh, an investigation has been launched when personnel at a basic health facility bandaged a man's broken leg using pieces of cardboard as support, news agency PTI reported.
According to a friend of the wounded man, Puran Singh (50) was involved in an accident on his motorbike on Saturday and was taken to Rhne PHC, where personnel bandaged his leg before sending him to the district hospital.
He added that once the district hospital's medical staff found cardboard fragments in the bandage, they plastered it.
Speaking about the incident, district chief medical and health officer J S Rajput said, "There is no orthopaedist at the PHC so this sort of technique was used to rush the injured to the district hospital. The technique was right, not wrong."
While seeking anonymity, a medical staff informed IANS: "This particular incident was revealed as a video surfaced on social media but such episodes have occurred earlier as well. The doctor or other health staff should not be blamed for such things because they provide treatment without having proper facilities. If plaster bandage was not available, it is not the staff's mistake. Question should never raised against those are responsible to provide medical kits to the hospital and management of the hospital."
An earlier incident involving suspected medical malpractice garnered widespread media attention when a bandage was applied to a 70-year-old woman's head wound after she had inserted a condom wrapper into her Porsa in Morena.
(With Inputs From Agencies)