Kottayam: The police here have launched a probe into the wrong treatment given to a 38-year-old woman at the Government Medical College recently.
The patient, Rajani of Kudassanadu, was subjected to chemo therapy though she had no cancer. Based on her complaint, the Gandhinagar police have booked cases against two doctors at the medical college and the Dianova diagnostic centre at Gandhinagar, which carried out the mamogram and tru-cut biopsy tests. The doctors are surgeon R.P. Renjin and consultant oncologist K. Suresh Kumar, who examined and subjected the woman to chemo treatment.
The cases were registered under IPC sections 336, 337 and 34 for act of endangering the life or personal safety of others. R. Sreekumar, Deputy Superintendent of police, Kottayam, will head the investigation.
A decision on imposing more charges against the accused doctors would be made after examining the MCH medical board's reports.
A statement of the doctors too would be collected.The woman said that she decided to lodge a complaint after coming to know that it was a case of medical negligence. "Since a state-of-the art pathology lab is operational at the GMC itself, the oncologist should have waited for a report from there instead of rushing with a report obtained from a private laboratory," she said.
The woman, who had a six-centimetre long lump on her breast, was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and given chemo treatment at the GMC.
The hospital later clarified that she was treated after a tru-cut biopsy test conducted at Dianova, a private laboratory, revealed a small area of malignancy on her breast.
However, the review result and the additional results, which came out later, showed that there was no malignancy at all.
Following this, the woman approached the Regional Cancer Centre in Thiruvananthapuram for a breast scan, which too tested negative.
Meanwhile, a re-examination of the samples sent to the private laboratory at the RCC once again confirmed that she had no cancer.
Accordingly, she was provided a correction course while the benign lump was removed through a surgery.
The woman, however, had suffered hair-loss after undergoing chemo treatment.
