Doctor held over 'wrong treatment'
Detectives yesterday arrested a consultant surgeon of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a diagnostic centre in Sherpur town's Narayanpur in a case filed over “wrong treatment” given to a female patient last year.
Shariful Islam is a consultant surgeon of burn and plastic surgery unit at the hospital, a DMCH doctor told The Daily Star.
Abdul Warish, additional superintendent of police in Sherpur, said the doctor was sent to the district prison after he was produced before the court.
The doctor cut the left breast of the patient at a Dhaka private hospital on November 15 last year on the ground of “breast cancer”, he said.
The woman of Shreebordi upazila in Sherpur, what police said, was confirmed through several medical tests that she did not suffer from breast cancer.
In December 28 last year, her husband filed the case with a Sherpur court against two doctors, including Shariful.
The patient told this correspondent that the DMCH doctor had cut her breast without proper diagnosis rather he had identified a “blister” in the breast as a sign of cancer.
Denying the claim, Shariful said he conducted the surgery in a right way.
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