4 Surgeons,3 Medicine Doctors at GMC Yavatmal Booked under IPC 304A for death of a patient.
Yavatmal: 7 Doctors associated with the government medical college and hospital (GMCH) here have been booked under IPC section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) after the death of a 16 year old patient.
Those booked include one assistant professor and Three Junior Residents from the Surgery department and three doctors from the Medicine casualty Department
An offence has been registered against seven doctors of the government medical college and hospital (GMCH) in Maharashtra's Yavatmal for medical negligence over the death of a 16-year-old boy last year, police said on Saturday.
Based on a complaint lodged by the mother of the boy, who died in September 2021, a case under section 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) of the IPC was registered at Lohara police station on Wednesday, an official said. The FIR was registered after a three member internal inquiry panel found the doctors guilty of dereliction of duties leading to the death of the patient.
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