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Kurnool Doctor removes kidney instead of treating urethra, lands up in legal soup

  • Doctor from Kurnool is said to have removed the kidney of a patient in a haste.
  • He has now landed up in legal soup as the consumer forum demands compensation for the patient.
  • Forum opines that instead of removing the kidney, the doctor should have referred the patient to a better hospital.
medical negligence Kurnool Doctor removes man s kidney consumer forum orders compensation of Rs 45 lakh

In a case of medical negligence, the Kurnool District Consumer Forum has ordered the AP Chapter of the Indian Medical Association, based in Hyderabad, to pay a compensation of Rs 4.5 lakh to the patient. It is alleged that the doctor removed the kidney of the patient in a haste when he complained of stones in the urethra. The patient further said that when the kidney was removed, he suffered from various ailments had to spend even more for treatment in other hospitals. 

27-year old B Nagendrudu, who is a resident of Chennur in Sirivel mandal, Kurnool district, had filed the case in the forum five years ago against the Indian Medical Association and Dr G Krishna from Gowri Gopal Hospital in Budhawarpeta in Kurnool. In the complaint, the man gave out details of the procedures he had to undergo. Doctors had told him he had a stone lodged in the upper urethra and a “stag horn calculus in the left kidney upper pole.” Following this, Dr Krishna carried out a number of procedures, which included ureteroscopic lithotripsy and insertion of stent, but Nagenduru still complained of abdominal pain. Post another surgery, he was referred to another doctor in Hyderabad, who said that nephrectomy (kidney removal) had been done earlier. So, after five surgeries and a kidney less, Nagenduru still did not get rid of the pain. "I have undergone five surgeries till 2012. For two years I suffered pain," Nagenduru said to Deccan Chronicle.

Meanwhile, Dr Krishna, in his justification said that this was not a case of medical negligence. The patient was admitted on July 9, 2010 and after clinical examination on July 14, an operation was done with the consent of the complainant and his wife. They found that the left kidney was full of pus and infected, which required nephrectomy. Dr Krishna said that he removed all pieces of small stones and inserted new DJ stents. He justified, "Due to calculi pyeonephrosis, to save the complainant's life from septicaemia and death, simple nephrectomy was done. He said the patient had not come in time, resulting in the stent being stuck in the body. "There was no negligence and no deficiency of service."

However, the consumer forum went against Dr Krishna and said that the removal of kidney was done in a haste. The forum opined, "Instead of conducting nephrectomy, Dr Krishna ought to have referred the complainant to a higher institute for removal of stag horn calculi through modern technical procedure."

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