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published Published on Feb 9, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 9, 2012
-The Telegraph
 
The Assam Human Rights Commission has granted a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of a woman who died because of alleged medical negligence at Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in 2006.

Commission member Jyoti Prasad Chaliha today said they had directed the Assam health department to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of Latika Das, 35, who passed away at the GMCH on March 31, 2006, after being allegedly administered a wrong injection by a nurse.

He said there had been gross negligence on the part of the hospital authorities.

When the GMCH was asked by the commission to conduct an inquiry into the cause of death, the authorities had said the record of the woman’s treatment were lost.

A division bench of the commission, comprising AHRC chairperson Justice (retd) Aftab Hussain Saikia and Chaliha, also asked the state health department to constitute a three-member probe panel to conduct a fresh inquiry into lapses on the part of the GMCH which led to the loss of the records.

Latika was admitted to the GMCH on March 31, 2006, with high fever by her husband Bolindra Nath Das.

According to her husband, even though her blood tested negative for malaria, a nurse administered her quinine injection on the night of March 31, 2006.

She passed away within a few minutes.

Based on the allegation made by her husband, the commission registered a case and asked the director of health services to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.

“The inquiry conducted by D.J. Bora, a professor of medicine of the GMCH, was inconclusive as there was no mention of the cause of death in that report. The commission again ordered an inquiry by a three-member panel of expert doctors,” Chaliha said.

“Surprisingly, the second inquiry conducted by a panel of the GMCH’s head of medicine A.K. Adhikary and senior doctors B.P. Chakraborty and N.K. Hazarika mentioned that no inquiry was possible since the records could not be found,” he said.

The panel then asked the government to conduct a probe to fix responsibility, besides paying Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the next of kin of the deceased.

The Telegraph, 9 February, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120209/jsp/frontpage/story_15111693.jsp


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