Court dismisses discharge plea by Inscol hospital owners
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 8
A local court today dismissed a discharge application filed by owners of Inscol hospital in a medical negligence case. The charges will now be framed against them on the next hearing scheduled for March 15. The case has been going on since June 2008.
As per the application, the accused had said that the allegations levelled against them are false and that complainant JS Arora had forged documents. It also said that Arora being a lawyer used his legal acumen to falsely implicate them.
The complaint against the three accused was filed under Sections 120-B, 420, 326, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC along with Section 15 of the Medical Council of India Act, 1956.
The case
As per the complainant, JS Arora, in 2005, his wife, then 65-year-old Indrajit, went to Inscol hospital in Sector 34 to get a mole on her leg checked. Indrajit was physically fit at the time barring diabetes. Doctors there told her that she may have ‘pulmonary embolism’, which is actually blood clotting in the lungs. The hospital asked them to purchase a “Tissue Plassiminogin Activator” injection to treat it which cost Rs 81,600 at the time.
The high potency injection is to be given by a qualified cardiologist in a medical facility, which has a ventilator. However, the hospital ignored the procedure and Indrajit’s condition worsened, as per the complaint. The hospital could not control the situation and asked them to take Indrajit to another private hospital which they did. They spent over Rs 8 lakh there but her condition did not improve and she was referred to the PGI.
Indrajit stayed there for a month, but her eyesight had deteriorated and her body had lost strength. The civil suits that began in 2007 were settled in April last year and Jagjit received around Rs 33 lakh as compensation in total. The criminal case against the then owners of Inscol hospital and the doctors is on at the district courts here since 2008. However, Indrajit died in August last year.
