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Decision on forceps case to be delayed

Correspondent

CUTTACK: The SCB medical college and hospital superintendent J.K. Balabantray on Wednesday told mediamen here that the high level committee probing into the ‘forceps in abdomen’ case would take some more days to submit its report. The panel instituted by the superintendent on Monday into the sensitive issue was supposed to submit the report on Wednesday.

“The chairman of the panel has requested for some more time to submit the report as some more doctors and nurses are to be quizzed and their statements are to be recorded,” Balabantray said. The report is likely to be in place by the end of this week, he added.

Meanwhile, sources said that the committee comprising three senior professors of the medical college continued to interrogate the offending surgeon Saroj Sethy for the second day on Wednesday. Although, Sethy has owned the moral responsibility for the act of negligence in which a pair of forceps was left inside the abdomen of a woman after a surgery, the defiant surgeon is trying to justify the act saying the same mistakes were earlier done by some reputed surgeons of the state.

Knachan Bhoi, a 35-year-old mother of four children had undergone tubectomy in the hospital in 2004. But a six-inch long forceps was left inside her abdomen after the surgery that was removed only last week. After a thorough enquiry into record books, it was known that Dr. Sethy had performed the surgery three years ago.

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