Delhi: Court orders FIR against North-Delhi hospital in Medical Negligence case
Delhi Medical Council, while acting on the complaint of the complainant examined and removed the concerned doctor's name from the State Medical Register on August 27, 2019, for 90 days.;
New Delhi: A court here has directed the Delhi police to lodge an FIR against a north-Delhi-based Hospital in a case of medical negligence during childbirth in 2018.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jagmohan Singh passed the order against the hospital and its doctor, noting that the present matter called for an investigation by police.
According to the complaint filed by Dr. Alok Kumar, Assistant Professor of SRCC, Delhi University, the accused manipulated the date of his wife's delivery, preponing it by a month, and due to their negligence, the child suffered from Birth Hypoxia and has been reduced to the vegetative state.
Noting that Delhi Medical Council had earlier passed an order to remove the concerned doctor's name from the State Medical Register for a period of 90 days concerning this case, the court said there was independent medical opinion on record in the present case against the accused doctor.
"In my considered opinion, the allegations leveled by the complainant against the accused persons reveal commission of cognizable offence. Further, the evidence is not within the reach of the complainant. The present matter, therefore, calls for an investigation by police," the judge said in the order passed on April 11.
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