In the last
Consultant-cum-management Joint Meeting held at Moolchand Hospital,
the Medical Director of the hospital issued a statement that as per the requirement
of National Accreditation of Boards of Hospitals, it is the duty of the
hospital to follow the autopsy report, if done, from the Police.
The duty of the hospital is not
over by handing over the file to the Police, if the patient was treated in
their hospital.
I can only explain it under two
reasons, firstly, by following up of autopsy report, the hospital can correlate
their findings, learn their mistakes and improve in their future protocols.
The second reason I can narrate
by way of an example. Long time back, there was a murder of the wife of a
senior resident in Anesthesia in our Hospital. On the complaint of the parents
of the murdered girl, the hospital Anesthetist was arrested under the Dowry
Death Act. He remained in Tihar Jail for over a year when on
humanitarian ground, one of our consultants visited Tihar Jail and looked at
the file of the case of the doctor who in the past one year had not appeared in
the court even once as every time there was a date and the court used to say ‘adjourned’.
When he looked at the file, the
post mortem report had shown that the girl was raped before death as sperms
were detected in her female sex organs and these sperms’ DNA did not match with
that of the Anesthetist doctor.
The very next hearing the
doctor was released for not being found guilty in the case. Had the hospital,
followed post mortem report, the case would have been solved within the initial
few dates.
In more than 30 years of my career, I
have not seen any hospital following this but being a requirement of NABH
recognition, I think it will not only updated by medical profession but save
situations like this as stated above.
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