BOTCHED CAESAREAN AT COMILLA CLINIC HC summons civil surgeon, clinic owner, doctor

The High Court Division on Sunday summoned the civil surgeon of Comilla, private clinic owner and physician to appear in person on November 7 to explain why caesarian section was conducted on 19-year old Khadiza Begum leaving one baby in her womb when her twin was born.
The managing director of Life Hospital and Digital Diagnostic Centre at Gouripur, Doudkandi and its physician Sheikh Hosne Ara Begum were directed to appear before the court at 10.30AM on November 7.
The court in a suo motor rule also asked the government to explain in four weeks why it would not be directed to take action against such negligence and careless treatment.
Respondents were asked to reply to the rule in four weeks.
The respondents include, secretaries of the ministries of health and home, Health Services director general, civil surgeon of Comilla, the head of gynaecology department at Comilla Medical College, the mayor of Comilla, the chief executive officer of Comilla City Corporation, deputy commissioner of Comilla, managing director of the clinic and Hosne Ara Begum.
A bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and AKM Zahirul Hoque issued the directives and the suo moto.
Supreme Court lawyer Mahfuzur Rhaman Milon brought the matter to the court’s notice citing a report published by New Age on October 26.
On October 25, more than a month later, Dhaka Medical College Hospital gynecologists conducted a caesarian section on Khadiza to bring out a stillborn baby.
Housewife Khadiza Begum of Algirchar, Homna, Comilla was admitted to the clinic on September 18 after she experienced labour pain.
Her husband, Md Awal Hossain works in Oman.
Hosne Ara, assistant surgeon of Government Maligaon 20-bed Hospital, performed the caesarean section on Khadiza, when she gave birth a baby, but its twin sister was left in the mother’s womb considering it as a tumour.
Following her discharge from the clinic, Khadiza returned home and complained that she felt severe pain in her womb.
She was brought to the DMCH where the doctors said that a baby, not a tumour, had been left in her womb. 

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net