New Delhi : The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Yogesh Khanna has sought response from the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) on a petition seeking Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the allegations that two doctors were being allowed to treat patient at Fortis Hospital without the required qualification. Dealing with a petition of a mother on behalf of five-year-old Devarsh, the bench sought response from the two doctors, Dr. Vivek Jain and Dr. Akhilesh Singh working as neonatologists and pediatricians in Fortis.
The petitioner mother has alleged that the child suffered brain damage during his birth at Fortis. After keeping the child in neonatal ICU for 12 days after C-section the child was discharged by the hospital. The petitioner mother further added that though the accused doctors certified the baby as healthy, the child turned into a vegetable in the next 7 months and is presently suffering with unabated Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy along with ‘West Syndrome’. The plea said that in order to hide the baby’s injury from the parents and with a motive to evade its responsibility the hospital prepared false medical records of the child.
It was submitted before the bench that the petitioner only recently got to know that Jain and Singh do not hold the requisite qualification and are not entitled to practice as either neonatologists or pediatricians. The petition sought a CBI enquiry on the issue of the doctors being allowed to treat the patients without qualification.