One Sarthak Pattnaik of Mahabir Bazar here has filed a damage suit against Dr Prasanta Samal for alleged negligence in treatment to his pregnant wife.
Pattnaik has alleged that his wife Suchismita was under Dr Samal’s treatment during her pregnancy. Dr Samal conducted ultrasound four times from May to November last year. All the time, he reported that everything was normal relating to the child and the mother.
According to Pattnaik, Dr Samal asked him to admit his wife in his Kalyani Polly Clinic on December 9. His wife gave birth to a female child after a surgery. But as the child was ill, Pattnaik showed the kid to many paqediatric specialists in Odisha and, lastly, took her to the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Science in Kolkata. There, doctors informed him that the child is suffering Hypo-Plastic Left heart syndrome, which has no treatment as the left heart of the child has not been properly built. The child may die at any time.
Pattnaik, who is the nephew of late Justice DM Pattnaik, is aggrieved because Dr Samal had assured him all the time that there was no complicacy in delivery of the child.