The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has given a clean chit to the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh in the case in which a newborn was wrongly declared dead by the hospital. The DMC ruled out any medical negligence on its part.
“...No medical negligence can be attributed on the part of doctors of Max Super Specialty Hospital in the treatment administered to the complainant's new born baby,” according to the medical council's report.
The baby boy was wrongly declared dead by the upscale facility after his birth on November 30. The boy died during treatment a week later at a nursing home in Pitampura. His twin, a girl, was still-born. The twins were delivered at 23 weeks of pregnancy.
In its report, the DMC said, “As per international medical literature, foetus less than 24 weeks, if born, is an abortus and is not considered-viable and is not likely to survive”.
In its report to the Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is probing the matter, the DMC said that “the hospital did not issue a death certificate for the boy who had some heart beat for about four-five hours”, as the family had signed the 'Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)' document, even after being counselled by doctors about resuscitation.
Resuscitation is a life-saving emergency procedure that involves breathing for the victim and application of external chest compression to make the heart pump.