State Medical Council begins inquiry against doctors

West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has started an inquiry against the doctors whose negligence had allegedly led to four fingers of a Habra girl being cut off which Millennium Post had first reported on July 10.

The WBMC has accepted the complaint lodged by Mantu Paik whose two-and-a-half-year-old daughter lost four fingers of her right hand following her birth at a private nursing home in Barasat due to alleged medical negligence by two doctors.

It may be here mentioned that the family members of the victim also registered a complaint with the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) against Dr Tapan Jyoti Banerjee and Dr Dhiman Chatterjee whom the victim's father held responsible for the incident. WBCERC has also been looking into the matter.

The assistant register of the West Bengal Medical Council has written a letter to Paik acknowledging his letter and also informed him that the matter has been taken up for inquiry in terms of the provisions contained under the Bengal Medical Act, 1914 (as amended). After the story was published in Millennium Post, a convention was organised at Barasat during which two doctors took the responsibility of the baby's treatment. The Medical Council of India, Barasat branch also decided to boycott Dr Banerjee who had allegedly performed wrong treatment on the baby. She lost four fingers of her right hand in a surgery which was performed by Dr Banerjee at Care and Cure Nursing Home in Barasat within few days since her birth. The doctor told the family members that one finger had to be cut off as it developed infection but after the operation, the family members found that four fingers except the thump were cut off, as it has been alleged by Paik. The incident occurred in 2015 but the victim's father decided to lodge a complaint after he came to know about the existence of the WBCERC.