The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has set up a committee to probe the allegations of ‘missing kidney’ by the father of a four-and-a-half-year-old patient Deepika currently undergoing treatment at the institute.
Pawan Kumar, who is from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, has registered a case at the Hauz Khas police station.
He alleged that his child had undergone a surgery in March at the hospital, and a scan after the procedure showed ‘that both her kidneys were missing’.
“The ultrasound on March 17 showed that both her kidneys were not there,” he alleged.
Deepika has been on dialysis since March. She had undergone a surgery on March 13 following which she complained of severe pain. Doctors asked for an ultrasound.
The AIIMS has maintained that it is probing the ‘incident’ and will submit the final report by May 28.
“We have to ascertain if there has been any negligence or if this is purely a medical condition,’’ said a senior AIIMS official.
“The hospital has constituted a high-powered committee of senior professors to investigate the father’s allegations, which are of serious nature,’’ the official said.
The father alleged that the doctor who operated on the child hasn’t been able to answer his queries properly. “I was thus forced to go to the police,” he said.
He also alleged that doctors told him that the child had only one kidney when she came to the hospital which doesn’t seem true.
“When we came, the left kidney was swollen and doctors advised us to get it removed. The right kidney was fine,’’ Mr. Kumar said.
He claims that even a test report at the AIIMS, dated December 8, months before the surgery, showed that the child’s right kidney was fine.
Patient’s father alleged that his
child had undergone
a surgery in March. But, an ultrasound after the procedure showed that both her kidneys were missing
