Woman dies of 'negligence of doctor' during surgery

A woman died during a gallbladder surgery allegedly due to negligence of doctors at a private hospital in Latifabad.

An examination later conducted at the govt-run Civil Hospital revealed that the surgeon performing the procedure of removing the gall bladder had ripped through the liver leading to excessive bleeding and death of the patient. The deceased was later buried at Tando Yusuf graveyard.

As per details, Maqsood, a resident of Pakka Qila, brought his wife Noreen to Mohammadi Hospital located at Latifabad Unit No 5 Chowk for a gallbladder surgery. However, the woman died during treatment at the hospital.

Qamar, brother of the deceased, said that his sister came to the hospital with her husband on a motorcycle for the surgical procedure. "Within an hour of the surgery, the doctor told us that there was an emergency and asked to arrange blood for transfusion," Qamar recalled. When the family arranged blood and brought it to the hospital, an ambulance was already there which was called by the surgeon himself.

The doctor asked the family to immediately shift the patient to Civil Hospital. The family complied. Doctors at Civil Hospital said that the woman had died two hours ago. They further said that the private hospital's doctors were so incompetent and careless that they shifted the victim to Civil Hospital without even stitching the wound. After the examination, the Civil Hospital doctors said that during the gall bladder-removing procedure the surgeon had caused a slit in the liver, due to which blood was lost, leading to the death of the patient. According to Qamar, later when they returned to the private hospital, the doctor was not there and neither did he attend the call.

He said that the hospital management initially refused to accept the doctor's negligence. But later, the lady medical superintendent of the hospital admitted that the woman's condition had worsened due to a cut in the liver during the surgical procedure. She assured that action would be taken against the negligent doctor after investigation by the hospital administration.