New Delhi: A panel probing a case of alleged medical negligence at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences gave a doctor accused of causing a patient’s death the clean chit. Dr A K Bishnoi had allegedly left a screw in the patient’s chest cavity during a surgery.
A second surgery had to be performed to take out the screw, but the patient, Gokul Prasad, could not be saved.
Prasad was discharged on September 8 after being operated upon for the first. But he was re-admitted two days later for another surgery to remove the screw. Ten days later, he died.
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had taken a strong exception of the case and had suspended Bishnoi with immediate effect.
A four-member committee was set up to probe the case.
This is not the first time that AIIMS has made news for the wrong reasons. In July 2007, doctors were accused of leaving a gauze tape in the stomach of a patient. In another incident, consumer court slapped a fine of Rs five lakh on AIIMS for removing the breast of a woman after she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer.
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