Doctors remove kidney during operation

LAHORE - Believe it or not! A poor woman was running from pillar to post for the last four years to save the life of her teenage daughter, suffering a chronic disease after doctors of Services Hospital allegedly removed the girl’s kidney during an operation.

She has paid several visits to almost all the public hospitals of the city, and also offices of the secretary health and the chief secretary for treatment of her daughter and strict action against the doctors who removed her daughter’s kidney but to no avail.

The victim girl, Shemaila Atta, 15, daughter of a rickshaw driver Attaullah visited first time a private clinic on September 6, 2005 when she complained a minor pain in her abdomen.

Attaullah was resident of 9/56-A1, Street no 6, (Sadaat Street), Zerar Shaheed Road, Alfaysal Town.

The clinical investigations of revealed the girl normal. Her both kidneys were also reported normal in an ultrasound report.

She visited another private medical center when she felt pain again. “In the Obstetric Ultrasound Examination her both kidneys are normal”, reveals the investigations of the said private medical center.

The story of her agony, however, started when the girl once again felt pain and was taken to the Services Hospital on September 26, 2008 where in the start the doctors allegedly mishandled the case of the girl while showing acute negligence. She was discharged after a major surgery following a gyne related disease.

Sometimes after she felt pain again and was rushed to the Services Hospital where she underwent another major operation on April 14, 2006. The patient, however, could not recover from the disease as she was again operated on April 19, only four days after her second surgery.