Colombo (LNW): The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has urged the authorities to immediately launch an impartial probe into the recent death of a three-year-old toddler at the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital (LRH), during what reports claimed as a kidney operation.
Daily Mirror quoting GMOA Spokesperson Dr. Chamil Wijesinghe reported that the Union is of the view that it is essential to promptly launch a probe into the incident as to ascertain the cause of death.
Dr. Wijesinghe emphasised that it is unfair for both parties, namely the victim’s party and the medical officers, to draw early conclusions on what exactly happened without a comprehensive analysis, according to Daily Mirror report.
The GMOA’s stance on the death of the toddler appears in the backdrop where endless speculations are being made by a number of parties, including the victim’s parents, that this was due to the negligence of the doctors.
The three-year-old child was identified to have developed acute kidney disease and thus was referred to surgery for the removal of the left kidney, but the doctors later informed that the healthy right kidney was also removed during the procedure, according to the victim’s parents.
The child in the absence of both kidneys required haemodialysis until a suitable kidney could be transplanted, but passed away after contracting a harmful germ, reports claimed.
The three-year-old was a resident of Kotahena area and was receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the LRH and was pronounced dead on July 28.
