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The Fortis Hospital at Shalimar Bagh dismissed five staffers on Wednesday for allegedly operating on the healthy left ankle of a chartered accountant instead of the injured one during a surgical procedure conducted the previous afternoon.
A police complaint lodged at the Ashok Vihar police station stated that the patient, 24-year-old Ravi Rai, had fractured his right leg when he fell down a staircase on Sunday. He was taken to Fortis Hospital, where screening tests showed that the ankle joint was damaged. Following this, the surgeons decided to operate on the leg.
“He had fractured an ankle joint, and needed screws to hold it in place,” said Rai’s father Ram Karan. “But when they brought him out of surgery, we noticed they had operated on his left leg. His right leg was untouched.”
Ram Karan alleged that the hospital authorities were shockingly nonchalant about the entire episode. “When we questioned the doctors, they said there was no problem… they would simply perform another surgery to remove the screws from the left ankle and put them in the right one,” he said.
Doctors operate on wrong leg of 24-year-old, 5 Fortis hospital staffers sacked
Note to self.......
A police complaint lodged at the Ashok Vihar police station stated that the patient, 24-year-old Ravi Rai, had fractured his right leg when he fell down a staircase on Sunday. He was taken to Fortis Hospital, where screening tests showed that the ankle joint was damaged. Following this, the surgeons decided to operate on the leg.
“He had fractured an ankle joint, and needed screws to hold it in place,” said Rai’s father Ram Karan. “But when they brought him out of surgery, we noticed they had operated on his left leg. His right leg was untouched.”
Ram Karan alleged that the hospital authorities were shockingly nonchalant about the entire episode. “When we questioned the doctors, they said there was no problem… they would simply perform another surgery to remove the screws from the left ankle and put them in the right one,” he said.
Doctors operate on wrong leg of 24-year-old, 5 Fortis hospital staffers sacked
Note to self.......
