The Health department has suspended an Associate Professor attached to the Department of Paediatrics at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, after the relatives of a four-year-old accused him of operating on her tongue instead of surgically removing her sixth finger.
The incident happened on Thursday morning. The girl from Cheruvannur in Kozhikode had been inconvenienced by the additional finger, and the doctors at the Institute of Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) of the hospital suggested a surgery some time ago. She was admitted to the MCH around 9.30 a.m. for the procedure.
According to the girl’s relatives, around an hour later, she was taken out of the operation theatre with a bandaged tongue. When they asked the hospital staff how it happened, the latter retorted whether the surgery was not scheduled on her tongue.
