In a case of alleged negligence, a three-year-old child was operated thrice after repeated failed surgeries by different doctors at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS), hospital here. Azhar Jan, 3, daughter of Fayaz Ahmad of Handwara was operated for appendix by a doctor at the SMHS hospital here on March 14, this year, her father Fayaz Ahmad said.
After surgery, the girl child was kept in the observation ward for the next ten days. However, the condition of the child deteriorated.
The doctors at the hospital told the family that the baby has to be operated once again.
On March 24, Azhar Jan was operated again. The surgery was performed by another doctor.
“The doctor told me that the operation was successful. He said my daughter needs to remain under observation for two days, before she could be taken home,” Ahmad said.
However, he said his happiness to see her daughter recuperating did not last long.
Hours after the surgery, Ahmad said, blood and septic started oozing out of her wounds.
The alleged failed surgery, Fayaz said, shattered the family.
He said the head of the department on March 30 visited the ward where his daughter was recuperating.
Ahmad said asked him to take an undertaking as the doctors decided to go for another surgery.
“The third surgery failed as well. More than the much needed medicare, my daughter was made a scapegoat. The doctors experimented with her,” he alleged.
The doctors, he said, did not even stop after the third surgery. He said he was asked by the doctors that his daughter has to go another surgery on July 5.
“I’ve just lost faith in the doctors. They won’t rest till my daughter is dead,” he said.
Ahmad said that he sold his land to meet the expenses for the treatment of his daughter.
However, he said not only economic loss, but the family has undergone psychological trauma due to the alleged negligence of the doctors.
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