KOTTAYAM: The Kerala human rights commission has registered a case after a woman was subjected to chemo after a false lab report. Commission chairman Antony Dominic on Monday has issued an order to the medical education director to conduct a probe and submit a report within three weeks.
The commission also directed the medical college superintendent Dr TK Jayakumar to give an immediate explanation on the incident. The case will be considered on July 2. It was P K Raju, a human rights activist, who approached the commission.
Meanwhile, the medical college principal Dr Jose Joseph filed a report to health minister KK Shailaja on the incident on Monday. The minister on Sunday had issued orders to the principal to file a report. According to sources, the report safeguards the doctors of the MCH and blames the false report from the private lab. It also says that since the report was approved by a very senior pathologist who was earlier working in the MCH, the doctors naturally approved it.
In a shocking case of likely medical negligence, the 38-year-old woman was subjected to chemotherapy for breast cancer at the MCH here solely on the basis of a faulty medical report from the private lab.
The doctors realised that Rajani V, a single mother from Alappuzha, did not have cancer when results of the biopsy samples sent to MCH's own lab turned negative. By then Rajani had lost all her hair and was experiencing physical discomfort.
Meanwhile, Rajani on Monday evening told TOI that no one from the government or MCH contacted her after the news broke out in the media. "Only MP elect Kodikkunnil Suresh arrived here and he assured that he would speak to the opposition leader to raise this issue in the Assembly,” said Rajani.
BJP activists took out a protest march to the MCH on Monday demanding action against the culprits. AIYF, the youth wing of CPI, had staged a protest outside the private lab Dianova on Sunday evening leading to its closure.
The commission also directed the medical college superintendent Dr TK Jayakumar to give an immediate explanation on the incident. The case will be considered on July 2. It was P K Raju, a human rights activist, who approached the commission.
Meanwhile, the medical college principal Dr Jose Joseph filed a report to health minister KK Shailaja on the incident on Monday. The minister on Sunday had issued orders to the principal to file a report. According to sources, the report safeguards the doctors of the MCH and blames the false report from the private lab. It also says that since the report was approved by a very senior pathologist who was earlier working in the MCH, the doctors naturally approved it.
In a shocking case of likely medical negligence, the 38-year-old woman was subjected to chemotherapy for breast cancer at the MCH here solely on the basis of a faulty medical report from the private lab.
The doctors realised that Rajani V, a single mother from Alappuzha, did not have cancer when results of the biopsy samples sent to MCH's own lab turned negative. By then Rajani had lost all her hair and was experiencing physical discomfort.
Meanwhile, Rajani on Monday evening told TOI that no one from the government or MCH contacted her after the news broke out in the media. "Only MP elect Kodikkunnil Suresh arrived here and he assured that he would speak to the opposition leader to raise this issue in the Assembly,” said Rajani.
BJP activists took out a protest march to the MCH on Monday demanding action against the culprits. AIYF, the youth wing of CPI, had staged a protest outside the private lab Dianova on Sunday evening leading to its closure.
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