IMA Barasat to boycott member over allegations of medical negligence

The Indian Medical Association (IMA), Barasat branch has decided to boycott Dr Tapan Jyoti Banerjee, an executive committee member of the IMA, after he has been accused of a glaring medical negligence in which a two-and-half-year old girl lost four fingers of her right hand.

The article was published in Millennium Post on July 10 following which a convention was organised at Barasat in which the local doctors, representatives of the IMA, social activists took part. Dr Swapan Roy, vice-president of the IMA, Barasat and Dr Bibhu

Chakraborty took the responsibilities of the treatment of the baby girl.

Victim's father Mantu Paik, a daily wage labourer from Habra in North 24 Parganas, narrated the ordeal his family had gone through regarding the baby's treatment at the convention.

Paik had already lodged a complaint with the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) against the two doctors — Dr Tapan Jyoti Banerjee and Dr Dhiman Chatterjee — whose negligence led to the fingers being cutoff. On the basis of the complaint, WBCERC has started a probe in this regard. Sumit Gop, a social activist assured the family

members of the victim that they would take baby to Chief Minister

Mamata Banerjee to get justice and to punish the accused doctors whose negligence has brought a ruin for the girl.

A platform has also been set up with the doctors, lawyers as its members and Sujit Kumar Dey as the secretary whose job would be to find out the cases of medical negligence in the state and help the victims to highlight the incident at a proper forum.

It may be mentioned that the IMA, Barasat branch recently tabled a motion against Dr Banerjee. According to a senior IMA official, the accused Dr Banerjee would not be allowed in the executive committee as serious allegations have surfaced against him and the WBCERC is probing into the incident.

Millennium Post had reported how the minor girl and her family members were allegedly misguided by the accused doctors. The incident happened in February 2015 when the baby was

operated on her right hand at the Care and Cure Nursing Home at Barasat.

Dr Banerjee told the family members that the operation would be conducted on one finger of her right hand but after the operation was over, it was found that all the four fingers except the thump were cut off. It was told it was necessary otherwise the fingers would develop infection.

The victim's father Mantu said: "We want action to be taken against doctors who were responsible for the condition of my daughter. She would never be able to lead a normal life. Her right hand is also bent due to wrong treatment."