Doctored Care

When medical negligence is evident, action must be taken fast. A tragic death in Chennai is a case in point

The usual suspension-of-doctors-and-then-nothing-much response won’t do in the case of a young woman footballer’sdeath in Chennai after a botched surgery. Eighteen-year-old Priya R, suffering from a torn ligament, was promised that surgery would help her play better – her ambition was a government job through the sports quota. But her right leg was amputated following the surgery, and the complications kept mounting, culminating in multi-organ failure. A health department inquiry had found negligence on the part of doctors.