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'Nair hospital docs left a needle in my root canal'

Updated on: 26 March,2009 08:26 AM IST  | 
Vinod Kumar Menon | vinodm@mid-day.com

Patient files medical negligence complaint with police; dean institutes a departmental inquiry into the incident

'Nair hospital docs left a needle in my root canal'

Patient files medical negligence complaint with police; dean institutes a departmental inquiry into the incident

Matunga resident Yogesh Pandey (28) filed a complaint against dentists of BMC's Nair Dental College at the Shivaji Park police station on March 21. He has accused the doctors of sending him home on February 25 with the tip of a broken needle embedded in his gums, which later turned septic after a routine root canal procedure.



Pandey has also complained in writing to Dr Suhasini Nagda, the dean of Nair Dental College, about the incident.

Pandey, a schoolteacher, says, he went to Nair in August, last year because his father believed that doctors at civic run hospitals are far more experienced than private practitioners.

At the hospital, the dentist began Pandey's treatment, which involved many sittings that stretched over six months. Three days after one such sitting on February 25, Pandey experienced unbearable pain and swelling on the right side of his face. He could not open his mouth and had to subsist on a liquid diet. The doctors just prescribed painkillers.

On March 20, the doctors found in an X-ray, the presence of shard of a broken instrument in Pandey's tooth, which was duly noted on his OPD papers. "Clearly, the doctors did not keep their superiors informed about the goof-up, nor did they have the foreign body removed immediately as they should have. It is this sheer negligence that I have decided to fight," said Pandey.

Dr Nagda, told this correspondent that the allegations made by Pandey are baseless. She said, "It is a technical matter. His treatment is underway and we will give him the required medical attention as soon as he comes to the hospital."

A departmental inquiry has reportedly been initiated in the matter by the dean.




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