Allahabad High Court: The Allahabad High Court (HC) recently denied the owner of the hospital building whose negligence is believed to be the cause of a patient’s death last year from being granted bail. The patient who passed away had received contaminated platelets while suffering from dengue.
Hospital is like a Temple
“For a patient, a hospital is like a Temple where doctors are worshiped as gods,” according to a bench of Judge Saurabh Shyam Shamshery. Nonetheless, there have been a lot of documented situations recently where doctors and hospital administration have used patients as a means of making money. The judge claimed that the hospital and the doctors are currently engaging in such acts that are against their “Hippocratic” oath in order to make more money. In particular, the judge said, “Specially when there is a shortage of drugs, medical equipment, and platelets.”
FIR Filed against the accused
At the Dhoomanganj Police Station in Prayagraj, the FIR in this case was filed under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 274, 304, and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. The defendants were accused of providing and injecting contaminated platelets into a patient who passed away at Global Hospital, Asrawal Road, Saha Pipalgaon, Parayagraj. In order to obtain bail in the case, the current petitioner, Pappu Lal Sahu, told the high court that he is just the owner of the building where the hospital is located and not the hospital’s owner, shareholder, or staff. According to the defence attorney for the accused, the only reason the accused was brought into the case was because he offered to help the complainant’s side get platelets for the deceased even though he was not directly involved in the day-to-day operations of the hospital.
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Case included a period when dengue was on the rise
The solicitor representing the informant/complainant, who claimed that the applicant and his son were actively involved in obtaining contaminated platelets, vigorously opposed the bail motion. The court emphasised that the case included a period when dengue was on the rise, it was challenging to find platelets that belonged to the same blood group, and black marketing of platelets was common.
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