Dissatisfied with the internal inquiry, the heath secretary had directed the hospital on Friday to submit a detailed report in two days. PHOTO: FILE
Thirteen Nishtar Hospital employees were suspended from their jobs on Monday for alleged negligence that resulted in wrong surgery on a six-year-old boy on Thursday.
Those suspended are: Assistant Professor (Paediatrics) Dr Latif Soomro-who operated on the child-, Senior Registrar Dr Latif Kamran, Anaesthetist Dr Irshad, Medical Officers Dr Tahir Nawaz and Dr Shabbir, House Officers Dr Naurez and Dr Maozzam, nurses Shagufta and Jabeen, operation theatre assistant Zulfiqar Bhatti, ward attendants Muhammad Saeed and Muhammad Amin and ward cleaner Muhammad Babar.
An earlier inquiry, on the orders of Medical Superintendent Dr Javed Omar on Thursday, had held Dr Soomro responsible for operating a boy for kidney stones, though he had been brought in for circumcision. The report had said that the confusion had occurred because the boy’s five-year-old namesake was meant to be operated for kidney stones.
Dissatisfied with the internal inquiry, the heath secretary had directed the hospital on Friday to submit a detailed report in two days.
Nishtar Medical College principal, Sami Akhtar, had then formed a three-member committee to probe the matter.
The committee comprising Head of Anaesthesia Dr Salman Waris, Head of Surgery Dr Mustafa Kamal Pasha and Additional Medical Superintendent Dr Fahim Javed submitted its report on Monday.
Two external members were later added to the inquiry committee by the health secretary for an unbiased inquiry.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 12th, 2013.
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