Jaipur: Probe panel to look into wrong surgeries

JAIPUR: Following an FIR against a private city hospital on Tuesday for medical negligence, the health department constituted a committee to investigate the matter.
Three persons had filed the FIR at Karni Vihar police station against a private hospital located on Sirsi Road for wrongful surgeries and gross medical negligence. Dr Narrottam Sharma, chief medical health officer (Jaipur-I) said, “The committee comprising an anesthetic, orthopedic and neurosurgery specialists will probe the matter and they are likely to submit the report in a day or two.”
According to police, the patients are residents of Masuda in Ajmer. One of the women claimed that she had a lung-related problem and yet the doctors operated on her knee. Another patient alleged that he had come to the hospital for arthritis treatment but the doctors operated on him near his waist. The third patient also alleged similar negligence by the doctors.
Meanwhile, Private Hospitals and Nursing-Homes Society (PHNHS) secretary Dr Vijay Kapoor has demanded that a separate inquiry committee should be formed consisting of orthopedic and spine experts along with representatives of government and PHNHS. “If the hospital is found guilty, strict action should be taken against it to avoid such incidents in the future,” said Dr Kapoor.