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Published : 03 Jun 2013, 11:47 AM
A Chittagong court has ordered the jailing of a doctor for leaving a needle in the body of a patient during surgery.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nur-e Alam Bhuiyan passed the order following a hearing on the acceptance of the charge-sheet against the surgeon on Monday.
The convicted doctor was identified as Surman Ali.
The court also denied his bail petition.
Counsel of the plaintiff Advocate Iftekhar Saimul Chowdhury told reporters that Surman Ali would be on bail until the submission of the charge-sheet.
Another accused, Zakir Hossain, secured bail from the High Court.
Doctors Surman Ali and Zakir Hossain performed a surgery on a private university student, Aminul Islam, to remove haemorrhoids (piles) in a local clinic in the port city of Chittagong on May 30 last year.
Of the two doctors, Surman Ali is the Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon at the Chittagong Medical College and Hospital and Zakir Hossain a doctor attached to a diagnostic centre.
The patient continued to complain of pain in his rectum even after the operation. The two doctors did a second surgery, but the problem persisted.
As the patient’s condition deteriorated, he was taken to Kolkata, India, where Radiologist Debashish Dutta of the Apollo Hospital performed another operation on Aminul and removed a needle from his body.
Once back in Bangladesh, Aminul’s mother Delwara Begum filed on Jan 28 this year a case of medical negligence against the two doctors at the Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court.
The court took cognizance of the matter and ordered the OC of the Panchlaish Police Station to probe the incident.
Sub-Inspector of the Panchlaish Police Station submitted the charge-sheet against the two doctors to the court on Thursday, the hearing of which has been fixed on Monday.
