WB Medical Council suspends 3 Apollo Gleneagles Hospital doctors on medical negligence
Published on November 9, 2019 | Last Updated on November 9, 2019 State : West Bengal
Bengal: Holding negligence in the treatment provided to a four month old baby on the part of three Apollo Gleneagles Hospital doctors, the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has now suspended three doctors associated with the case for a period of three months.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the WBCERC has also awarded a compensation of Rs 30 lakh to the baby’s family, who died on April 19.
The case goes back to April 2017 when a four month old baby who was admitted to the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital for a colonoscopy died primarily because of an aesthetic overdose.
Alleging Medical Negligence on part of the hospital and its doctors, the parents approached the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) and the WBMC. The WBCERC held the doctors as well as the hospital guilty of negligence.
“Apollo Gleneagles Hospital is guilty of mismanagement and misrepresentation of facts, deficiency in services, negligent. It is also having come to the conclusion that three doctors seemed to be negligent in carrying out the treatment as expected,” the Commission said in its order.
Regarding the conduct of the doctors, the commission observed
It may be so that doctors have a set of activities in carrying out a procedure. However, in this particular case it is clear that none of the two important doctors in the act i-.e., Dr. Goenka and Dr. Mahawar ever saw the patient physically to assess whether she is capable of undergoing such a procedure. Moreover, none of his team doctors evaluated critical parameters of the baby. The Commission is surprised to note that if a doctor does not evaluate a patient properly before carrying out a procedure it clearly falls under the domain of negligence. We can safely conclude that neither Dr. Goenka nor Dr. Mahawar were aware of the baby’s condition prior to the procedure and they went ahead mechanically in carrying out the colonoscopy. Even though on records it is satisfying that the colonoscopy itself was uneventful as also revealed from the x-rays, the same could not be said regarding condition of baby to undergo anaesthesia and recover back. In view of the foregoing discussions it is amply clear that the hospital did not manage the baby in an appropriate manner, there was lack of communication between the duty doctors, consultant doctors and nurses, the baby was kept for over three days in the hospital for no apparent medical reason and therefore the hospital, the three attending doctors, viz., Dr. V R Srivastava, Dr. Mahesh Kumar Goenka and Dr. Sanjay Mahawar seem to be negligent in treatment and the hospital is additionally guilty of deficiency in services which it is required to professionally provide for, lack of coordination, mismanagement, misrepresentation of facts and making the patient to over stay.
Since the commission can only try hospitals, the medical negligence part was being probed by WBMC, with PTI now reporting that the state medical council has called for the suspension of the doctors .
As per the order of the WBMC, the names of the three doctors would be removed from the council’s website and they would not be allowed to work at any medical facility in the state, a senior official said. The council in September conducted the final hearing in the death case.
A WBMC source informed the news agency that the verdict will be out soon.
Published on November 9, 2019 | Last Updated on November 9, 2019 State : West Bengal
Bengal: Holding negligence in the treatment provided to a four month old baby on the part of three Apollo Gleneagles Hospital doctors, the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has now suspended three doctors associated with the case for a period of three months.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the WBCERC has also awarded a compensation of Rs 30 lakh to the baby’s family, who died on April 19.
The case goes back to April 2017 when a four month old baby who was admitted to the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital for a colonoscopy died primarily because of an aesthetic overdose.
Alleging Medical Negligence on part of the hospital and its doctors, the parents approached the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) and the WBMC. The WBCERC held the doctors as well as the hospital guilty of negligence.
“Apollo Gleneagles Hospital is guilty of mismanagement and misrepresentation of facts, deficiency in services, negligent. It is also having come to the conclusion that three doctors seemed to be negligent in carrying out the treatment as expected,” the Commission said in its order.
Regarding the conduct of the doctors, the commission observed
It may be so that doctors have a set of activities in carrying out a procedure. However, in this particular case it is clear that none of the two important doctors in the act i-.e., Dr. Goenka and Dr. Mahawar ever saw the patient physically to assess whether she is capable of undergoing such a procedure. Moreover, none of his team doctors evaluated critical parameters of the baby. The Commission is surprised to note that if a doctor does not evaluate a patient properly before carrying out a procedure it clearly falls under the domain of negligence. We can safely conclude that neither Dr. Goenka nor Dr. Mahawar were aware of the baby’s condition prior to the procedure and they went ahead mechanically in carrying out the colonoscopy. Even though on records it is satisfying that the colonoscopy itself was uneventful as also revealed from the x-rays, the same could not be said regarding condition of baby to undergo anaesthesia and recover back. In view of the foregoing discussions it is amply clear that the hospital did not manage the baby in an appropriate manner, there was lack of communication between the duty doctors, consultant doctors and nurses, the baby was kept for over three days in the hospital for no apparent medical reason and therefore the hospital, the three attending doctors, viz., Dr. V R Srivastava, Dr. Mahesh Kumar Goenka and Dr. Sanjay Mahawar seem to be negligent in treatment and the hospital is additionally guilty of deficiency in services which it is required to professionally provide for, lack of coordination, mismanagement, misrepresentation of facts and making the patient to over stay.
Since the commission can only try hospitals, the medical negligence part was being probed by WBMC, with PTI now reporting that the state medical council has called for the suspension of the doctors .
As per the order of the WBMC, the names of the three doctors would be removed from the council’s website and they would not be allowed to work at any medical facility in the state, a senior official said. The council in September conducted the final hearing in the death case.
A WBMC source informed the news agency that the verdict will be out soon.
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