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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The complainant has stated that her son, who was suffering from sickle cell disease, was admitted to the GMCH on September 18, as he was vomiting profusely, he said.

During the course of the treatment, there was squabble between the surgery and the medicine departments, and the boy was shifted from one ward to another following discussion about which department would be treating him and he was subsequently moved to the medicine ward, where he died, the official said.

The boy's mother also lodged a complaint with the hospital's dean who set up a three-member panel to probe the incident, the official said, adding that the report from the dean indicated mistakes by the doctors. This became the basis of the subsequent registration of the FIR

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