Liposuction gone wrong: State apex medical body rules out medical negligence

A five-member State-level apex aesculapian committee chaired by the Director of Health Services, which had been entrusted with the task of examining if aesculapian negligence had led to the post-surgical complications and amputation of fingers of a 31-year-old pistillate who had undergone liposuction country successful a backstage cosmetic session successful the city, has fixed a cleanable chit to the doctors who were progressive successful the surgery.

However, the State apex aesculapian body’s aesculapian study is “vague” connected respective aspects of the lawsuit and hence the constabulary would straight conscionable the members of the apex aesculapian assemblage seeking clarifications, said the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kazhakkuttom, the enquiry serviceman of the case, connected Wednesday.

Though the State apex aesculapian assemblage had submitted its adept sentiment connected August 23, the study had not yet been handed implicit to the police.

The woman, Neethu, a bundle technologist by profession, had undergone the liposuction process arsenic a time country astatine Cosmetiq session astatine Kazhakuttam connected February 22. Two days later, connected February 24, she was rushed backmost to the session with superior complications and aboriginal shifted to the ICU of a backstage hospital. She had to beryllium treated for implicit 3 weeks astatine the backstage hospital, during which, arsenic a life-saving measure, doctors had to amputate respective of her fingers and toes, which had turned gangrenous arsenic the corruption spread.

The incidental had drawn attraction to the information of cosmetic procedures which are present being performed not conscionable by integrative surgeons, but by dentists, dermatologists and adjacent by those moving quality clinics.

District-level panel

A district-level aesculapian sheet had earlier looked into the incidental successful May and had pointed retired that the woman, who developed abrupt complications aft the surgery, had been kept successful the Cosmetiq session from 9.30 a.m. connected February 24 and fixed IV fluids, oxygen, albumin infusion and humor transfusion till 7 p.m. and that she was shifted to a higher centre lone erstwhile her information worsened.

The sheet had mentioned that “she could person been referred aboriginal to a higher centre for further attraction and treatment.”

The State-level apex aesculapian assemblage was asked to instrumentality implicit arsenic the district-level aesculapian sheet could not scope a definitive decision “whether the supra hold is negligence oregon not and whether the hold perchance worsened the patient’s condition, resulting successful an amputation.”