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A shocking video from the Bargarh District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) in Odisha has gone viral, showing a hospital attendant wrapping cardboard around the arm of a fracture patient instead of using a Plaster of Paris cast. The incident, captured in the absence of an orthopaedic doctor, has raised serious questions about patient care.
The district hospital, already criticised in the past for faulty lifts and power cuts, is now under fresh scrutiny over the quality of its medical services.
Two such cases, from August 3rd and 5th, have surfaced. In both, patients with broken arms received makeshift "cardboard treatment" before bei...