Pregnant woman alleges being administered MTP medicines at Jaslok Hospital

Mumbai: A prominent hospital, has been mired in controversy after medical board has been set up by the government to investigate a case of alleged medical mix-up at the hospital, which led to a pregnant woman  being administered MTP medicines

A medical board has been set up at JJ hospital to investigate a medical negligence case, where a woman lost one her twins after allegedly being administered medicines meant for medical termination of pregnancy.The incident goes back to the the month of February 2017, when a pregnant patient, dentist by profession, was admitted to Jaslok Hospital for routine investigations. According to a report in , Dr Tarannum Wasif Khan , who was in the 25th week of pregnancy, alleged that she was administered Misoprost tablet, which is used for termination of pregnancy, instead of Microgest, which prevents early labour. As a result she went into labour in a few hours and had to go C-section during the night.  Post the surgery, one of her twins died after developing breathing complications. The other spent nearly three months in the hospital’s Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, according to her complaint

In her complaint with the police , the dentist has stated that when she checked her prescriptions on February 14 she realised that the cause of premature delivery was wrong administration of medicine. “I remember the strip the nurse gave me had four tablets. Microgest, which my doctor Dr Purnima Satoskar had prescribed, is a six-tablet strip. I later found out that it is Misoprost that comes in a four-tablet strip,” she said. It is reported that she first filed a complaint with the hospital on February 15, and then with the police when the internal inquiry set up by the hospital did not find any lapses