In July this year, thirteen people lost their eyesight after a botched up eye surgery at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in Mehdipatnam here. They lost their sight after an infection. The cause for it was attributed to contaminated eye drops.
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Year of malpractice in medical sector costs patients' lives in city. By Dr.Mahboob ali khan Phd
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Year of malpractice in medical sector costs
patients' lives in city.
By Dr.Mahboob Ali Khan phd
Malpractice in the medical sector is not something new, the
World Medical Association (WMA) this year had appointed
Dr Ketan Desai, a doctor tainted with corruption charges, as
its president.He was jailed in 2010 for his alleged
involvement in accepting bribes from a private medical
college.
In July this year, thirteen people lost their eyesight after a
botched up eye surgery at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital in
Mehdipatnam here. They lost their sight after an infection.
The cause for it was attributed to contaminated eye drops.
Earlier this year, Nikhil Reddy, an IT employee from
Hyderabad, underwent a leg extension surgery after which he
couldn’t walk. Dr Chandra Bushan, orthopaedic surgeon at
Global Hospitals who led the surgery, has now been
suspended for two years. Nikhil’s parents had alleged that he
was misinformed by the doctor and that he was not explained
the pros and cons of the controversial surgery.
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Nikhil had kept his parents in the dark about his leg
extension surgery. In another case of severe negligence by
doctors, a school teacher died after a failed anaesthesia
during hysteroscopy. After the patient failed to wake up from
the anaesthesia, Dr Namratha of Srushti IVF Centre at
Secunderabad instructed the patient’s husband to shift her to
another hospital in the city, attempting to wash her hands off
the case. Namratha, the chairman of the clinic, has now been
banned for five years. She now faces a lifetime ban from
performing surrogacy.
Similarly, Dr T Manoj Kumar was arrested for conducting
unnecessary appendicitis surgeries on people from rural
Karimnagar, the TSMC has suspended him for a period of
three months. Seven doctors who were associated with these
surgeries have been given stern warnings by the council.
The doctors had performed 583 appendicitis surgeries, 238
surgeries performed by the doctors were on children. Two
other doctors, T Suresh Kumar and Ganesh were also
arrested for the same office from Karimnagar. The doctors
used to charge `9000 for the surgeries.