The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has suspended registration certificates of four resident doctors for a month over alleged irregularities in the treatment of a 11-year-old boy. The boy, approached two major hospitals after his initial treatment was botched up by a quack, eventually lost his left leg, which had to be amputated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went to a quack, which was our mistake. But then we went to two top hospitals in the capital. But in both hospitals, they delayed his treatment as they could not identify the piece of glass initially. My son\u2019s leg could have been saved if doctors at these hospitals had treated him on time,<\/em>\u201d said Bilal\u2019s father Kadir Ahmed, who works as an electrician.<\/p>\n \u00a0Sequence\u00a0of Events:<\/span><\/p>\n May 1, 2014: Bilal while playing in neighborhood has a piece of glass pierce and lodge in left foot. Family takes him to a ‘quack’ for treatment, who doesn’t remove glass and simply prescribes medicines.<\/p>\n May 1,2014 (night): Bilal taken to Bara Hindurao\u00a0Hospital hours after seeing quack – doctors fail to identify and locate shard of glass despite X-ray being taken. No treatment given.<\/p>\n May 2, 2014: Bilal finally admitted into Bara Hindurao\u00a0Hospital, doctors finally remove glass.<\/p>\n Few days later – Bilal was discharged from Bara Hindurao – referred to Safdarjung Hopsital (vascular surgeon) – checked by various specialties, not admitted and sent home.<\/p>\n June 2014: Bilal’s left leg is fully infected due to improper treatment, doctors at Meerut hospital forced to amputate leg.<\/p>\n When the DMC held an inquiry, the four doctors failed to give any satisfactory responses about the lapses in the boy\u2019s treatment, said Dr Tyagi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has suspended registration certificates of four resident doctors for a month over alleged irregularities in the treatment of a 11-year-old boy. The boy, approached two major hospitals after his initial treatment was botched up by a quack, eventually lost his left leg, which had to be amputated. \u201cWe went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n