COIMBATORE: In a shocking development, city police have lodged complaint against three doctors of a private hospital here after they allegedly left pieces of cotton and gauze inside the body of a four-year-old boy during a kidney surgery.
Police said that Vinodkumar, 38, an engineer of Dindigul in a petition to the city police commissioner K. Periaiah recently, sought action against three doctors of a private hospital near Ram Nagar here, who performed a kidney operation on his son Vishnu, and carelessly left cotton and gauze pieces inside after the surgery, leading to serious health problems for the boy.
While Vinodh took his son to the same hospital after a couple of weeks as the boy was unwell, struggled to urinate and a distended stomach, doctors took a scan but failed to acknowledge their carelessness and procedural lapse during the surgery.
Responding to Vinodh’s complaint, the commissioner directed the Kattoor police to take immediate action.
A case was lodged against the three doctors Dharmendhra, Vinodh and Kannadasan under section IPC 337 (causing hurt to any person by doing any action so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life).
