The acting dean and a doctor of Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Maharashtra’s Nanded city, where 37 patients, including 18 newborns, died in a span of four days, were booked on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after a woman and her infant died.
Based on a complaint lodged against Dr. S.R. Wakode and the head, paediatrician department, Dr. Rathod, by a person in connection with the death of his daughter and her newborn child at the hospital, a case under Section 304-II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code was registered by the Nanded Rural Police, Additional Superintendent of Police Abinash Kumar told The Hindu.
Mr. Kumar said there were no allegations of medical negligence in the given complaint. “It was more against individual and administrative negligence. Prima facie it appears that it was less of specific allegations of medical negligence in the complaint given and more against individuals’ act and administrative negligence,” he said.
