K.K. Rajaram, District Medical Officer, on Tuesday said that the district medical board would try to submit a report to the police by August 8 on the allegation raised by K.K. Harshina, a native of Adivaram, that a surgical instrument was left behind in her abdomen after a C-Section surgery performed at the Government Medical College Hospital in 2017.
Though the body was expected to hold a meeting on Tuesday, it was reportedly put off because the authorities could not get a radiologist on board. Thereafter, Ms. Harshina and the functionaries of an action panel, who have been on an indefinite satyagraha outside the medical college hospital since May 22, staged a sit-in outside the DMO’s office.
Dr. Rajaram told The Hindu that subsequently an assurance was given to her based on the instructions of the district collector that the report would submitted in week. Apart from the DMO, the board’s members include the public prosecutor, gynaecologist, anaesthetist, and doctors from the departments of medicine, surgery, and forensic medicine. Ms. Harshina turned emotional while talking to the media, and said she could no longer wait for justice.
