Guwahati: Assam’s Jorhat Medical College & Hospital (JMCH) has once again made headlines when a minor boy suffered because of a doctor’s incorrect care.
According to reports, a nine-year-old child who was receiving care at the JMCH for a problem in his right leg had surgery on his left leg.
Information indicates that the hospital’s orthopaedic department doctors performed the boy’s surgery.
The victim child has been identified as Kalpajyoti Das, a 9-year-old boy hailing from Dergaon’s Misamari area.
Kalpajyoti had been receiving therapy at the JMCH since December 2022, according to the boy’s grandmother. The hospital’s doctors had promised the child’s family that they would treat the child’s leg and that they would need to perform a surgery.
The boy was admitted to the hospital on Thursday and had surgery. The boy’s family members were shocked to learn that his left leg had had surgery after the procedure, though. Kalpajyoti was once more taken to the operating room when the family members informed the doctors of the situation, and this time the doctors treated his right leg.
The boy’s family claims that the physicians operated on the boy without telling them beforehand. Critics have also questioned why the youngster was taken out of the operating room if both of his legs needed to be operated on.
A thorough investigation into the occurrence has been required in the meanwhile by the grieving family members.
On the other hand, Dr. Purnima Barua, Medical Superintendent of the JMCH stated that the entire incident is a result of a communication gap and that a detailed probe has been ordered on it.
Dr. Barua said, “I have enquired about the entire incident. The incident is a result of communication gap between the doctors on duty and the family members of the boy. As far as I have been told so far, a minor defect started on the left leg due to which the doctors operated on it first as part of an inter-operative decision made by the doctors.”
“An enquiry has been initiated into the entire incident. Two doctors headed the operation. According to me, before taking a decision to operate on the boy’s left leg, they should have approached the attendants of the boy,” Dr. Barua further said.