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AIIMS to probe “negligence” during surgery
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday set up a five-member committee to look into the complaint of negligence against the head of the Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery Department, Sampath Kumar.
Prof. Kumar reportedly operated on 12-year-old Tsering Norbu and tied and closed his aorta — main artery that supplies oxygen-rich blood to the body — instead of closing the patent ductus arteriosus.
It is a congenital heart defect wherein a child’s ductus arteriosus fails to close after birth. The boy died on March 18 after the surgery.
“The child was admitted on March 15 with symptoms including shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat and was operated on the next day to correct the condition. After the operation, the child was brought to the intensive care unit, where within one-and--hours the child was detected to have excess bleeding, no urine output, and high blood pressure in the upper limbs and no pulse in the lower limbs. He was rushed back to the operation theatre, where it was found that Sampath Kumar had tied and closed the child’s aorta. The child died allegedly due to the negligence,” said an AIIMS official.
AIIMS spokesperson Shakti Gupta said the committee was asked to submit its report within two weeks.
Until then, the next seniormost person in the department Balram Airen would be its head.
Suspended
Recently a senior doctor in the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, A. K. Bisoi, was placed under suspension after he allegedly left a screw inside a patient during heart surgery. The patient died later, reportedly due to multiple organ failure.
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