Mangalore, Jun 29: A case of alleged medical negligence by the private medical staff at the district government hospital was raised at the SC/ST monthly grievance meeting held at the office of Mangalore City Commissioner of Police here on Sunday.
A person belonging to the Dalit community alleged that his mother who had been admitted due to a minor ailment at the District Wenlock Hospital died as a result of medical negligence by the staff of a private medical institution engaged in their internship at the hospital.
Detailing the incident in the meeting, he said that he had gotten his mother admitted to the general ward in the hospital at the beginning of the month as she was suffering from high blood pressure. After examining her, the doctors from a private medical institution engaged in internship at the hospital kept him in the dark about her ailment and diagnosis. When he complained to the district medical officer and concerned health officer, he said that the senior doctors from the private institution misbehaved with him and demanded to know why he had complained to the authorities.
He said that the doctors at the hospital kept mum and withheld information from him even after her condition turned grave on June 7. The authorities did not do much after she stopped breathing the next day, while still withholding information about the cause of her death, he alleged, adding that the hospital authorities had attributed her death to a kidney ailment.
Responding to the grievance, Commissioner of Police R Hithendra said that an FIR had been registered in this regard and the case of suspected medical negligence had been referred by the police to the state medical council for probe.
In the meeting, Dalit leader S P Anand alleged that a person belonging to the community had been attacked by goons sent by MCC corporator Abdul Azeez. Although an FIR has been registered, there was another attempt of assault on the same person, he said, requesting police protection to the complainant.
Mr Hithendra directed the concerned police officials to do the needful. He also directed the traffic police officials to consider cases of tinted glass in vehicles seriously and register cases against the vehicle owners.
To a complaint of alleged misbehaviour with civilians by members of the police department in Dalit colonies, Mr Hithendra assured of looking into the matter and instructed the police officials to behave with civilians in a dignified manner.
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