PUNE: The Chandannagar police on Tuesday booked a ward boy of a private hospital at Vadgaonsheri for cheating after he posed as a doctor and handled the delivery procedure of a woman in advanced labour. The woman later delivered a stillborn baby.
While the police have not arrested the ward boy yet, they have decided to refer the case to an expert panel of the Sassoon General Hospital’s medical board for fixing responsibility on the authorities of the private hospital. “We will take action as per the medical board’s report,” senior inspector Krishna Indalkar of the Chandannagar police told TOI.
On the night of June 2, the woman went with her husband, who is a delivery boy with a food service app, to the 10-bed private hospital as she was experiencing acute labour pains.
Indalkar, while citing the FIR registered by the husband, said, “There was no doctor during the night hours in the hospital. The couple came across the ward boy, who was wearing a doctor’s apron with a stethoscope around his neck. The ward boy impressed upon the couple that he was the doctor and would perform the delivery procedure. He took the woman into the operation room and, after conducting a physical check, started the delivery procedure.”
“However, during the delivery process the woman started bleeding excessively. The ward boy realised that the situation was going out of hand,” Indalkar said.
“The woman’s husband, fearing for the safety of his wife and child, took her to another private hospital in the same area. The medical authorities there examined the woman and recommended that she be shifted to a bigger hospital. The husband then took the woman to the Command Hospital where she is an enrolled member. Here, she delivered a stillborn baby,” Indalkar said.
“The Command Hospital gave a report to the woman’s husband that the stillbirth was caused by damage to the womb and umbilical cord, which occurred during the first procedure at the private hospital,” Indalkar said.
The woman was under treatment at Command Hospital till June 13. “After that, her husband went to the private hospital and inquired about the person who had attempted to perform the delivery procedure. It was then that he learnt that the man was not a qualified doctor or gynecologist, but merely a ward boy,” Indalkar said. The husband then lodged a complaint with the police.
While the police have not arrested the ward boy yet, they have decided to refer the case to an expert panel of the Sassoon General Hospital’s medical board for fixing responsibility on the authorities of the private hospital. “We will take action as per the medical board’s report,” senior inspector Krishna Indalkar of the Chandannagar police told TOI.
On the night of June 2, the woman went with her husband, who is a delivery boy with a food service app, to the 10-bed private hospital as she was experiencing acute labour pains.
Indalkar, while citing the FIR registered by the husband, said, “There was no doctor during the night hours in the hospital. The couple came across the ward boy, who was wearing a doctor’s apron with a stethoscope around his neck. The ward boy impressed upon the couple that he was the doctor and would perform the delivery procedure. He took the woman into the operation room and, after conducting a physical check, started the delivery procedure.”
“However, during the delivery process the woman started bleeding excessively. The ward boy realised that the situation was going out of hand,” Indalkar said.
“The woman’s husband, fearing for the safety of his wife and child, took her to another private hospital in the same area. The medical authorities there examined the woman and recommended that she be shifted to a bigger hospital. The husband then took the woman to the Command Hospital where she is an enrolled member. Here, she delivered a stillborn baby,” Indalkar said.
“The Command Hospital gave a report to the woman’s husband that the stillbirth was caused by damage to the womb and umbilical cord, which occurred during the first procedure at the private hospital,” Indalkar said.
The woman was under treatment at Command Hospital till June 13. “After that, her husband went to the private hospital and inquired about the person who had attempted to perform the delivery procedure. It was then that he learnt that the man was not a qualified doctor or gynecologist, but merely a ward boy,” Indalkar said. The husband then lodged a complaint with the police.
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