On the directives of the district court, the police have registered a criminal case against lBS hospital’s director, for allegedly keeping a dead woman on ventilator for five days, two months ago.
Victim’s husband Madan Nandan Sahay had approached the district court soon after the incident and on Friday, the court directed the Shahjehanabad police to register an FIR against the hospital director Dr Bhupendra Saxena and two other doctors. The police registered a case under sections 420, 418 and 467 of the IPC.
In the complaint, Sahay alleged that his wife, Sushma Sahay, who suffered a cardiac arrest and was admitted in the lBS hospital, was kept on ventilator even after death and he was told that his wife was alive. After six days the doctors declared her dead.
The matter came into light after one of the victim’s friends who is a doctor came to meet him and after checking the stats confirmed that his wife had died but still the doctors of lBS hospital kept giving medicine to the victim’s wife.
The doctors of lBS hospital declared Sushma dead on March 8. Bereaved victim was shocked after the hospital handed him a bill of Rs 8.5 lakh for the six-day treatment of Sushma.
The victim later filed a petition with the district court seeking action against director of lBS hospital Dr Bhupendra Saxena and three doctors Dr GS Gautam, Dr Rohit Kumar and Dr Anand Yadav.
The court ordered the Shahjehanabad police to register a case against the doctors.
Police said that the investigation has been started and evidences would be collected to verify the allegations raised by the victim and the medical experts would also be consulted for the same.