The Tripura government late on Tuesday placed under suspension four doctors and four paramedics of the Agartala Government Medical College
here in connection with the wrong surgery performed on a poor patient
at the hospital last month. All of them have been found guilty by a
three-member probe panel headed by director of health services S R
Debbarma.
After receiving the report from the probe panel, the state health department had served show cause notices on the doctors and paramedics concerned. Their response were not found satisfactory.
Fifty-three-year-old Ratan Das of Ampi in Gomuti district had gone for excision of a vascular growth inside the mouth for biopsy early last month, but the three surgeons had operated his urinary track. On a complaint lodged by the victim's family, police registered cases under Sections 338, 506 and 34 of IPC against the accused. All three accused surgeons were subsequently found to be absconding.
Sources said after the wrong surgery the doctors allegedly forced the patient to sign a consent on the operation table itself. Moreover, on the day of his discharge from hospital the three accused surgeons allegedly warned him not to disclose the matter to others but if he required medication they would provide it efficiently.
The doctors who have been placed under suspension are
Nilutpal Chakma, Niladri Sengupta and Soumen Debbarma (all assistant
professors) and anaesthesiologist Biswajit Sutradhar. The suspended
paramedics are Uma Chakraborty, Gopa Debroy, Niharika Kalai and Archana
Basak.
After receiving the report from the probe panel, the state health department had served show cause notices on the doctors and paramedics concerned. Their response were not found satisfactory.
Fifty-three-year-old Ratan Das of Ampi in Gomuti district had gone for excision of a vascular growth inside the mouth for biopsy early last month, but the three surgeons had operated his urinary track. On a complaint lodged by the victim's family, police registered cases under Sections 338, 506 and 34 of IPC against the accused. All three accused surgeons were subsequently found to be absconding.
Sources said after the wrong surgery the doctors allegedly forced the patient to sign a consent on the operation table itself. Moreover, on the day of his discharge from hospital the three accused surgeons allegedly warned him not to disclose the matter to others but if he required medication they would provide it efficiently.
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