Hospital CEO served notice over patient’s death

Petitioner filed Rs500 suit, says sister was administered medicine without proper diagnosis

LAHORE: A consumer court issued a notice to the chief executive of a private hospital in a suit seeking damages of Rs500 million. The facility was accused of criminal negligence which took the life of the petitioner’s sister.

Petitioner GA Khan Tariq submitted in the court that he took his sister to Farooq Hospital’s emergency ward on December 17, 2016 as she had a breathing problem. He said doctors discharged her without prescribing any medicine.
On December 19, she was again taken to the hospital, but this time she was admitted and examined by Dr Sajjad who administered the patient with Rocephine.
He said the medicine was given to the patient without any specific diagnosis. However, his sister’s condition deteriorated and she was then was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU). She remained in the ICU for five days, but doctors did not give their diagnoses on the medical register and attendants were informed only verbally from time to time about her condition.

The complainant said one of the doctors named Dr Rizwan also disapproved of treating the patient without a diagnosis because she was still unconscious.

The petitioner informed the court that owing to improper and non-professional conduct of the accused doctors, his sister died. He request the court to direct the respondent doctors, including the chief executive of Farooq Hospital, to pay him damages of Rs500 million for their alleged negligence which took the life of his sister.