IT News
Imphal, July 18:
Meitram Sanatomba, a 42 year old man from Sega Road has been suffering from ‘phobic anxiety’ after a doctor at RIMS called him a drug user. According to his wife Bejenti , her husband Sanatomba was allegedly refused blood donation after labeling him as a drug addict when he visited RIMS Blood bank on June 28 last month for voluntary blood donation as part of statewide camp to commemorate the 163rd Anniversary of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
According to Meitram Sanatomba, he had visited RIMS blood bank at Lamphel on 28th June at 10 AM and was refused his voluntary blood donation by Dr. K. Rachandra Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, RIMS and his junior doctors. The Doctors had reportedly examined his hand where previous medical conditions have left behind certain marks on his forearms and refused his voluntary blood donation. The doctors at the blood bank are further alleged of calling him a drug addict.
Aggrieved by the incident, Sanatomba is said to be suffering from depression, sleeplessness, fearfulness after the incident, according to his wife. He had updated a post on his Facebook account airing his grievances regarding the incident the same day, following which he started receiving threatening calls asking for his apology to the doctor and to take down the post on social media immediately, she further added. Dr. Rachandra’s wife has reportedly met Meitram Sanatomba on 6th July to work out the issue following which an amicable solution was reached, and the post on facebook was removed soon after. But Dr. Rachandra is alleged to have persisted and started threatening the next day on 7th July 2020, leaving Sanatomba not only stigmatized after being labeled a drug addict but also traumatized by the threatening calls.
Subsequent medical examination of Sanatomba at RIMS Psychiatry Department by Dr. Lenin and Dr. Gojendro after he complained of sleeplessness, fearfulness, hallucination, diagnosed him of suffering from Phobic anxiety
Meitram Sanatomba said that he had approached the Medical Superintendent and the Director, RIMS regarding the incident.
