A State-level medical apex body has indicted two senior doctors at the Ernakulam Government Medical College for negligence in the case of the death of medical student Shamna Thasneem last year on July 18.
Thasneem’s father K.A. Abootty secured the reports of the apex body through an RTI application.
The apex body had submitted the report on April 26. However, the Crime Branch is yet to complete the investigation into the case.
The apex body, while highlighting the total lack of professionalism in managing a patient, said there was no proper documentation in the case. There were dissimilarities in the records of nurses and the treating doctor. Rules of prescription were not followed while administering medicine.
It also said that when the patient came for the second time, no qualified doctor was present, and that led to the delay in diagnosis and treatment.
No care was taken by the supervising doctors to manage anaphylactic reaction caused by antibiotics, which is primary to all such treatments.
No life-saving drugs and equipment were available for the patient in emergency, the apex body had said.
Others’ role
A senior official in the Crime Branch said that while the apex body had indicted two senior doctors for negligence, investigations into the role of other doctors, nurses and officials at the medical college hospital who had attended Shamna were yet to be completed.
