Delhi Medical Council seeks report from hospital over wrong surgery on man

The Delhi Medical Council has taken cognisance of the case of a doctor at a government-run hospital for wrongly performing a procedure on the leg of a patient who was admitted with a head injury, and sought a detailed report."We have issued a notice to the hospital and have sought a detailed report from the doctor in connection with the case," said Dr Girish Tyagi, registrar of the Delhi Medical Council (DMC).A senior resident at Sushruta Trauma Centre, a dedicated facility for providing critical trauma services, wrongly performed a procedure on the leg of a patient who was admitted to the hospital with a head injury.The doctor has been barred from conducting surgeries without supervision after a hospital panel found him at fault.The negligence happened as the doctor mistook the patient with a head injury for another patient admitted there with a fractured leg.The doctor made a hole in the patient's right leg to put a pin inside. The patient was admitted to the hospital with injuries on his head and face following an accident. After the negligence was brought to the attention of the authorities, a corrective procedure was done on the patient.Two years ago, a similar incident took place at Fortis Shalimar Bagh, where surgeons operated on the wrong leg of a patient. The incident involved a 24-year-old youth who had fractured his right foot.Recently, a similar case of medical negligence was reported from the All India Medical Institute of Sciences (AIIMS) where one of the surgeons conducted an arteriovenous fistula, a standard vascular procedure used to access blood for haemodialysis treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease, when the patient didn't have a kidney disease.