Committee set up to probe treatment given to Kumaramangalam

NEW DELHI, AUG 25: Government today announced a six-member committee, headed by Medical Superintendent of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML)...

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NEW DELHI, AUG 25: Government today announced a six-member committee, headed by Medical Superintendent of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) Dr C P Singh, to inquire into all aspects of treatment provided at the Apollo hospital during the last four months to Rangrajan Kumaramangalam, who died here on Wednesday.

The committee will submit its report to the Union Health Minister C P Thakur within two weeks, an official release said here.

Besides Singh, other members of the committee are former director-general Armed Forces Medical Services Lt Gen (Retd) D Raghunath, medicine professor from JIPMER (Pondicherry) Dr K R Sethuraman, consultant-medicine from RML Dr F Chandra Shekaran, senior consultant-medicine from Ganga Ram Hospital Dr P S Gupta and Head of Department of Haemotology from Christian Medical College (Vellore) Dr Mammen Chandy.

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Kumaramangalam died on August 23 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after a grim battle against acute myeloid leukaemia (blood cancer) for 12 days.

His health was mired in controversy in the last few days over the treatment he had received at the Apollo hospital where he was admitted in April last with undiagnosed fever.

The hospital had, however, denied allegations of “wrong diagnosis” and mistreatment and had offered to face a public probe on the issue.