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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has summoned a senior official of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in person on July 13 in a case of wrong treatment given to a 12-year-old girl for her spinal injury at Safdarjung Hospital here last year. Justice Vikramjit Sen summoned the official, Ajay Aggarwal, after going through a statement filed by the Ministry under his signature in a sealed cover last Friday. Observing that the statement filed by the Ministry was incorrect as it was not as per the records of the case, Mr. Justice Sen also directed the official to file an affidavit. The Court had this past Tuesday asked the Union Government to inform it by Friday how much it could pay as ex-gratia to the teenaged patient. Mr. Justice Sen passed the direction after going through an inquiry report of a two-member committee where the doctor, Dr. Yadu Lal, who had operated upon the patient for insertion of `Harrington rods' in the spine, was held guilty of doing the surgery and the insertion of implants `badly.' He had summoned the report when counsel for the Director of the Central Institute of Orthopaedics (CIO), Safdarjung Hospital, Ashok Arora, submitted that a two-member committee had held Dr. Lal guilty of negligence and giving wrong treatment to the patient, Manju.
Dislocation of spine
The patient through her father submitted that she was admitted to the hospital on October 1, 2004, with fracture dislocation of spine with paraplegia. On October 12, she was operated upon and `Harrington rods' were implanted in the spine by the doctor, the petition said. However, a post-surgery X-ray examination of the spinal cord showed that the surgery performed by the doctor was faulty and the `Harrington rods' had been implanted upside down, which caused further displacement of the vertebrae, the petition alleged.
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