UP Scan centre provides another patient's report to 18-year-old, Gastroenterologist booked
Medical Negligence
Gonda: A case has been registered against a gastroenterologist, manager, radiologist, and other staff at a medical scan center in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly issuing a scan report belonging to another person. The doctor reportedly prescribed medication based on this incorrect report, endangering the life of a teenager.
Kotwali Nagar Station House Officer (SHO) Manoj Kumar Pathak said the case was registered on Wednesday on the order of a court following a complaint by a person named Mahesh Kumar.
The police reported that the doctor and the other involved were accused of allegedly defrauding an 18-year-old man and endangering his life through negligence.
According to the FIR, Mahesh Kumar alleged that the Hope Scanning Centre provided him with the scan report of another person instead of his son's. Based on the other person's report, the doctor prescribed medications, which he claimed endangered the life of the 18-year-old boy.
The FIR further mentions that due to the unbearable stomach pain, Mahesh Kumar took his 18-year-old son Sakti to Dr Saran on 12th February 2024. The doctor ordered an MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography) scan at the Hope Scanning Centre. Upon reviewing the scan results, Dr Saran informed Kumar that while his son would eventually recover, the treatment would require time.
Through severe treatments, Shakti's pain persisted so his father consulted Dr. Rajneesh Singh at PGI Lucknow on March 15.
After conducting similar tests there it was found that Shakti’s all the reports were normal. It was then revealed that all the previous scan reports from the Hope Scanning Centre were not Shakti's but of another person named Ram Milan Goswami.
Following the discovery of his son’s reports, Mahesh Kumar again Contacted the Hope Scanning Center only to receive yet another report that was still incorrect. This led Kumar to allege that Dr Saran for prescribing the wrong medicines, which jeopardized Sakti's health.
Pathak stated that since the incident took place before July 1 of this year, it has been registered under the IPC rather than the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which came into effect on that date.
According to the PTI report, SHO Pathak said a case was registered on Wednesday on the court's order under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (fraud) and 336 (negligently endangering life) and the investigation was handed over to sub-inspector Rajneesh Dwivedi.
However, the accused manager of the scan centre has claimed that the following allegations by Mahesh Kumar are baseless and the FIR has been lodged just for harassment.
