No help from home, ailing Japan scholar shifted from pvt hosp to MCH after a month
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Kolkata: A Japanese national fell severely ill while on a visit to Kolkata to deliver a lecture at an institute a month ago. He was admitted to a private hospital where he was treated for a month before being shifted to Medical College Kolkata on Thursday after repeated attempts to contact his kin in Japan failed.
Seventy-five-year-old Micihihiro Kata, a writer and researcher, has multiple complications and was transferred from the private hospital after no one came forward either to foot his bill or travel to Kolkata to be with him. It was revealed that Kata lives alone.
On June 25, Kata was admitted to Manipal Hospital Dhakuria with complaints of shortness of breath. He visited Kolkata to deliver a lecture at an event in J Krishnamurthy Foundation.
The patient was initially put on non-invasive ventilation, later intubated electively, and put on mechanical ventilation.
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Kata then underwent a sustained low-efficiency dialysis after consultation with a nephrologist. He had issues with his kidney and E.coli. Besides dialysis, the septuagenarian was also given blood transfusions as his haemoglobin count was persistently low. An endoscopy revealed narrowing of the second part of the duodenum due to 'extrinsic compression noted with nodular mucosa and metallic stent noted coming out of the papilla'.
Kata was taken off ventilation on June 28 and underwent dialysis on July 1. He was advised alternate day dialysis, which he initially refused but agreed to after counselling. "He remains anuric. He also is having abdominal pain, for which he underwent tomography of the whole abdomen on July 21 followed by a session of haemodialysis. He is maintaining his vitals and having no requirement of supplemental oxygen," said a statement from the hospital.
Efforts to contact his family, however, revealed that there was no one in his family to fly down and be with Kata. The Kolkata chapter of J Krishnamurthy Foundation wrote several emails to the Japanese consulate in Kolkata, the Japanese embassy in New Delhi, and the state govt seeking help for Kata but got no response. "We have heard that consulate officials visited him in hospital but we are not aware if they have taken charge of his treatment or are making arrangements to send him back to Japan," said Kamal Thacker, in charge of the Kolkata chapter.
Manipal informed the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) before Kata was eventually moved to Medical College Kolkata. "The hospital has informed us about the move," said a WBCERC functionary.
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