Doctors remove kidney during operation

Soon after the third major surgery of Shamial Atta, the doctors felt something wrong and immediately informed the hospital authorities about some mistake. In order to conceal ‘serious negligence’, the doctors had committed in the three major operations of the girl, the then administration of the hospital suggested to hush up the matter and decided to keep the victim’s mother in dark about the normal disease that had been converted into chronic one. The hospital management later advised the ill-fated woman Ruzina Bibi to take her daughter to the Lady Willington Hospital for treatment, saying that the hospital was lacking basic equipment used in the operation of the girl.

The woman later took her to the Lady Willington Hospital on July 4, 2006 where doctors conducted clinical investigations and also ultrasound of the girl. The report by this hospital that the girl was missing a kidney extremely shocked Ruzina and she raised hue and cry.

In order to probe into the matter on the complaint of the woman, the hospital administration referred her daughter’s case to the Mayo Hospital’s urology department where investigations were again carried out. At that time the head of the department, Prof Dr Nawaz Chugtai also confirmed that the girl had only one kidney.

On Ruzina’s protest the doctors referred her daughter to the Lahore General Hospital (LGH) for further confirmation about the missing kidney.

The victim woman became more disappointed when the LGH’s concerned department also confirmed that the kidney was missing.

When she requested the doctors for treatment of chronic disease of her daughter, they flatly refused her saying that they cannot take risk as the case of the girl was badly handled earlier. They suggested that the doctors of the Services Hospital who allegedly mishandled the case could only resolve mystery of the chronic disease.

The dejected woman went back to the Services Hospital on August 30, 2008 and appealed the doctors to save the life of her daughter, as doctors of other public hospitals were not ready to take her daughter’s case.