Publish Date: | Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:45 AM (IST)
The court cannot decide whether there was enough time to send the plasma to the lab.
Gwalior plasma case: Gwalior. New Zealand Representative. The single bench of the High Court dismissed the petition filed regarding the plasma incident, in which there was a demand to make the hospital management and the doctor accused. The court said that patients in COVID-19 needed immediate treatment. Whether the doctor had enough time to send the plasma to the lab for testing. This Court cannot decide. No medical board has also been constituted to examine the role of doctors. The dismissal of this petition brought great relief to the doctors.
In December 2020, Datia businessman Manoj Gupta died due to transfusion of adulterated plasma. He was a COVID-19 victim and admitted to a private hospital. When his health deteriorated, the doctors asked him for plasma. He contacted Jagdish Bhadkaria, an employee of the hospital. He got him talked to Ajay Shankar Tiwari and was given a plaza for 18 thousand rupees. After the death of the patient, the police registered a case against Ajay Shankar Tiwari and others, but did not take any action against the hospital and the doctor. Regarding this, relatives of Manoj Gupta had also applied for registering a case against the doctor and the hospital management in the district court. The district court rejected his application. An appeal was filed in the High Court against the order of the District Court. The High Court dismissed the petition after examining the facts. It was argued on his behalf that the hospital and the doctor did not test the plasma during treatment. Didn’t see if the plasma came in the right bag. Therefore the doctors and the hospital management are also to blame. Action should be taken against them also. The court did not consider the hospital management and the doctor guilty. Petition dismissed.
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