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Hyderabad: Gynaecologist Dr N. Shiraz, of the Alfa Hospital in Mohgalpura, has been suspended by the Andhra Pradesh Medical Council for a month after the ethics committee found that she was responsible for a wrong blood transfusion, which lead to a patient’s death.
The patient had undergone a C-Section and there were complications due to which three bottles of blood were given to her. Dr Ravinder Reddy, chairman of the APMC said, “The blood did not match the blood group of the patient and there was a severe reaction. As a result, the patient’s condition deteriorated.
The patient was rushed to a super specialty hospital, but she died. It was later found during an investigation that the blood used did not match the blood group of the patient. It is the duty of the doctor to check and verify such things. Therefore, the committee took the decision that the doctor was negligent.”
The case was filed in 2011. There were seven hearings and documents from the hospital, the blood bank and also the patient’s case-sheet were studied.
A senior doctor of the ethics committee said, “The doctor was given a fair chance to present her version. But checking, and re-checking, that blood of the correct group is being used is the duty of the attending doctor. It is understood that it was an emergency case. Still, it is the duty of the doctor to conduct the simple check that could have saved the life of the patient.”
The council has served a notice to the hospital asking its officials to keep the doctor off duty for a month.
