Have this man got Detox shots…!!!
On my very first night call in Okhaldhunga hospital, attending nurse called me, ‘Bed no. 27 is having unusual behaviors’. That guy had taken the canula out and bleeding from canula site, I just pinched the bleeding site and asked the nurse to have got dry cotton and the load diazepam shot. He received 50 mg IM shot in subsequent steps and fell asleep and open the vein with canula. On the same night after 2 hours of event, another guy started to show same behavior. I asked him to stretch his hands and abduct the fingers…it was… fine tremor. I said to nurse, ‘Have this man got detox till he sleeps.’ They wake up in the middle of night and start showing unusual behavior to other patients and hospital staffs. They come to nursing station with fluid holding in hands. Some take out the canula and need special FBI kind treatment. This is a cold mountainous place; possibly most of the people are habituated to alcohol to get rid of cold insult. Not the specific ones, most of the t