Dr K Sudhakar, Minister for Health and Family Welfare
Bengaluru: Dr K Sudhakar, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, has said that four staff members of the Tumakuru district hospital, accused of causing the death of a mother and her newborns by denying medical attention, will be dismissed if the charges are proven true.
“Strict legal action will also be taken against them,” the minister said in his post on social media on Friday.
The commissioner of the Department of Health and Family Welfare issued an order suspending a doctor and three nurses of the Tumakuru district hospital on Thursday, as a woman and her newborn children in the city died after being denied timely medical attention at the hospital, said sources.
In his post, Dr Sudhakar has said that, at the outset, it seems an act of dereliction of duty by the doctor and the three nurses of the Obstetrics Ward in the hospital, and the four staff members have been suspended by the Department.
“The government and the Health Department have considered this matter very seriously. A high-level committee has been formed, led by the Commissioner of the Department, for further investigation of the incident. The committee members have also been told to submit a report within two weeks,” the minister said.
Reminding that it is the foremost duty of medical staff, including doctors and nurses, to provide medical attention and treatment to a patient, the minister has said, “The government has already ordered medical professionals not to demand a patient to produce any sort of record. The order is being re-issued.”
