While all eyes are on the report of the internal enquiry committee set up by the Max Hospital in the case of its staff declaring one of the premature twins dead who was later found alive while on his way to crematorium, Dr KK Aggarwal, President of Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that the enquiry would establish whether the incident occurred out of ‘negligence’ or was a ‘deliberate mistake’. Two doctors from IMA are
on-board the committee that has been set up to enquire into the details of the incident as externals.
Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, has already terminated the services of the two accused doctors while the enquiry is in process, however, Aggarwal told that the enquiry is not “time-bound” since it needs time to examine each and every minute detail.
He said that after IMA representatives hand over the report to him and only after his approval will the report’s findings be made public. “Each and every details need to be answered in such cases, let them take their time hence it’s not time bound from my side,” said Aggarwal.
He said that there is no doubt that a child having ‘hypothermia’ was wrongly been declared dead. Hypothermia is the condition of having an abnormally low body temperature.
He cited the example of similar such incident which occurred in Safdarjung Hospital in June this year, where a new born was handed over as dead and was found alive later on. He said that doctors in that case was not found to be at fault in the enquiry set up in the Safdarjung case. He told that a person needs to be first brought at the normal body temperature before being declared dead as a person cannot be declared dead at low body temperature.