Vadodara: More than a dozen hospital staff , including doctors, consultants, residents, nursing staff, and security personnel, have been issued notices at SSG Hospital here. The move comes after a video of an unauthorized man suturing a patient went viral. The hospital authorities had constituted a committee which found that the incident took place on the night of August 3.
Sources said that the committee’s report, along with an action taken report, has been submitted to the state govt, which had sought clarification from the hospital. The committee, constituted by hospital medical superintendent Dr Ranjan Aiyer, had three members — Prof Dr Rupal Doshi, head of the medicine department; Dr Viswanath H Chavali, associate professor of the orthopaedic department; and Dr Hitendra Chauhan, in-charge resident medical officer. The probe revealed that the man who was taking the stitches is a driver who runs a private ambulance during the day and regularly “volunteers” at the hospital in the casualty ward during night hours.
He took 2-3 stitches on the leg of an 18-year-old patient while the interns were observing him. Even the nursing staff provided surgical gloves and instruments like needles to him for performing the stitches. The resident doctors were busy attending to other patients.
There were 12-13 patients at the casualty/emergency ward at that time. Aiyer confirmed that notices had been issued to multiple staff members for allowing unauthorised entry, callousness, and for showing negligence in duty. “We have issued notices to security personnel who were supposed to stop unauthorised entry of any outsider.
Similarly, five nurses who were on duty, along with two medical officers, five resident doctors, and four consultant doctors, have been issued notices,’’ said Aiyer, who has issued the notices with the dean, Medical College, Baroda. A senior doctor of the hospital said that in war-like situations, the help of self-help groups or volunteers is taken for assisting the overburdened medical staff. “But there was no such situation that necessitated an ambulance driver to take the stitches,” he said.
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