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Fresh probe into kidney theft charge

CUTTACK: Director of Medical Education and Training (DMET) P.K. Dash on Saturday informed that a new medical board would be formed soon to conduct a fresh enquiry into the alleged kidney theft case of an 11-year-old boy.

The DMET’s decision came following a request made by Police Commissioner B.K. Sharma recently. The police have sought a detailed and larger medical view from the DMET as the contentious issue – whether the right kidney of the boy had been removed or not – was not satisfactorily answered by the earlier medical board constituted by the SCB Medical College and Hospital.

“A bigger committee comprising experts in the field would be constituted within a day or two. The members of the panel would be drawn from across the State and the panel would thoroughly examine the boy to remove all doubts about the allegation,” Prof Dash said.

The boy Abinash Nath, a native of Jagatsinghpur district, had undergone surgery in December 2006 for removal of his vermiform appendix. Dr B.N. Mishra, a reputed surgeon of the city had performed the surgery successfully in a private hospital here.

But when the boy complained of abdomen pain recently and upon conducting certain tests on the boy in some private hospitals of Bhubaneswar, the doctors could not locate the right kidney of the boy.

This prompted the father of the boy to believe that the doctor, who performed the 2006 surgery on Abinash might have removed his kidney. The boy’s father then lodged a complaint before the police commissioner who inturn asked the city police to investigate into the allegations.

After registering a case, the city police took the help of SCB hospital and urged the hospital to set up a medical team to examine the boy and advise accordingly. Four senior doctors of the hospital after conducting some tests on the boy felt that the boy had congenital deformity in which his right kidney was negligible in size.

The medical report was, however, silent on the contentious issue and said no definite opinion could be given on this query. “In order to get a larger opinion on the issue we have requested the DMET to conduct a fresh enquiry and submit the report in 10 days,” the police commissioner said.

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