The Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) has penalized a private hospital in the federal capital with Rs. 1 million fine for failing to take care of a female patient, which resulted in her death.
Moreover, the IHRA has urged the deceased’s husband, Younas Imran, to register a criminal case against those responsible for his wife’s death.
According to the IHRA order, the complainant’s wife died as a result of gross negligence, misconduct, and clinical incompetence at a private hospital in Islamabad. Hence, a fine of Rs. 1 million has been imposed in accordance with Section 29 of the IHRA Act, 2018.
As quoted by the News, the IHRA officials stated that medical staff gave the wrong medications to the complainant’s 37-year-old wife, who was also a mother of two children. After concluding the investigation, IHRA declared criminal medical negligence on the part of doctors, nurses, and paramedical staff of the hospital.
Revealing the details, the order states that the patient was given Acuron 50 mg for her headache by a female nurse, in the absence of a doctor. Resultantly, the drug paralyzed her respiratory muscles and she died.
Moreover, a postgraduate trainee, Dr. M. Shafi, who conducted the nasal polypectomy (surgical removal of a polyp) on the deceased victim, was legally not allowed to perform such procedures without the supervision of an ENT specialist. Consequently, Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) canceled the license of the medical trainee for two years.
Meanwhile, the hospital also removed the hospital staff involved in the case on the basis of CCTV footage. The IHRA further blamed the hospital for trying to save the suspect nurse, Katherine Rubab, as it did not bring her to the investigative committee.
Publishing a news without naming the hospital where doctors and paramedics are playing with the patient’s life is meaningless. Please mention name of hospital.
100% Agreed with you.
Rawal General Hospital Islamabad
Name of hospital must be shared with public so they can decide to visit this facility
why you didn’t mentioned the name of that Hospital?
Rawal General Hospital Islamabad and its staff declared guilty of mal-administration, mal-practice and medical negligence by the Islamabad Health Care Authority in case of Nazia Aslam’s death.
Great
it should be life time banned. two years is nothing. this will be a lesson for other hospitals if banned for life time.
This must not be taken as an isolated case and considered done after imposing fine. Rather this is just the tip of the iceberg. Regular audits are not conducted by govt. nor which results in such practices becoming the norm, and only surface when a certain case gets highlighted. This calls for a complete overhaul of the system, and govt. must schedule a compliance audit throughout Pakistan. This will also keep the hospitals on their toes and benefit the people ultimately.