The State Health Department, through a Government Order G.O. (D) 408, dated 17.05.2012, has punished Apollo Hospitals for violation of rules laid down under the Cadaver Transplant Programme.
The hospital will not be provided a liver under “share one liver” programme, on rotation basis, as it had violated guidelines and norms of the programme as specified by the government through its earlier G.O.s.
Violation of G.O.
The convener of the Cadaver Transplant Programme has been directed to “withhold share one liver” on rotation basis as a “punishment” for the violation. The hospital has also been “severely reprimanded” for “violation of the Government Order” and guidelines established by it for the cadaver transplant programme. The hospital has been permitted to continue routine transplant programme.
The G.O. issued on Thursday has, however, acknowledged that the hospital had tendered an apology for violation of guidelines.
The violation pertains to transplant of a part of the liver received by Apollo Hospitals through the State Cadaver Registry for a patient from Mauritius while there was an Indian who had been waitlisted to receive the organ. As a result the Indian, who was on the priority list, died.
Following a complaint, the Health Department instituted an enquiry headed by V. Seetharaman, Head, Hepatibiliary Diseases, Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Additional Secretary of Health, Satyabrata Sahoo, in February.
The punishment was meted out because the hospital had not informed the office of the Cadaver Transplant Programme about the recipient of the organ.
Keywords: Government order, Apollo Hospitals, punishment, Health Department, Cadaver Transplant Programme
Someone should go to jail. The licenses of the doctors involved should be suspended. Unless the consequences are severe this is bound to happen. Condolences to the victim who died.
Apollo Hospitals for all the wrong reasons stands synonymous for years now,but
manages to suppress its misdoings by the help of rogue polticians'government
officials and sadly press as well. The punishment handed over to it for just one liver
denial by health department is an eye wash.
Do this hospital needs to be given special privileges,when it has illegally operated
such transplants so often? The wisdom of government in allowing the apollo hospitals
to encroach the roads around its existence is sheer lunacity and a mockery on the
common man. Apollo Hospitals after all is not for the common man. one dreads to
get admitted in this hospital,even during a serious accident or life threatening health
conditions, when seen the unethical approach they mete out to hapless patients.
Its still green in memory,when my dad had a stroke and left to die at this rogue
hospital. The eminent cardiologist left to mumbai for a meeting despite seeing the
conditions.
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