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Misuse of drug claim denied by hospital

Mar 12, 2007 | Staff | The Nation

Rajavithi Hospital Monday denied a complaint made by Dokrak Petchprasert, 48, who claimed she was denied treatment earlier this month and injected with penicillin which she is allergic too last year.

The doctors had always treated the patient well, according to the medical treatment standards and with sympathy, said Dr Jesda Chokdumrongsuk, the director of the hospital.

"All the doctors and nurses who took care of her were well aware that she was allergic to penicillin and never gave the drug to her, as she maintains," said the doctor.

Dokrak had proved allergic to the drug at a provincial hospital when she suffered from a severe medical condition called Stevens Johnson Syndrome that left her blind in her right eye and the left one partially impaired, he said.

She won a court case and was awarded Bt800,000 in damages in 2005 for the treatment in 1999 that left her blind.

The last time Dokrak visited Rajavithi was on February 25 when she was diagnosed with an asthmatic attack, bronchitis and tuberculosis and admitted for treatment for 11 days, said Jesda.

Neither of the medicines administered to the patient were penicillin, nor they were drugs from the same group of penicillin, said the doctor.