Sule hails case against doc, Chakankar expects action against hospitals

1 2 3 Pune: NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Saturday welcomed the police action against Dr Sushrut Ghaisas , the treating doctor of the woman allegedly denied treatment at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital last month. Sule, the Barmati MP, said, "The police have finally acted in the case. For the last so many days, the govt was doing nothing.

Our party's city chief Prashant Jagtap had decided to go to the court to give justice to the family of the victim, Tanisha Bhise . I am happy that a case has been registered against the doctor. A woman in Maharashtra has been murdered and it is really unfortunate to see the govt handling the case so insensitively.



" The Alankar police on Saturday evening registered a case of causing death by negligence against Dr Sushrut Ghaisas, a former doctor of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, under Section 106 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The relatives of postnatal death victim, Tanisha Bhise, had shifted her to Surya Hospital, after she was allegedly not given treatment for five hours. She delivered twins there on March 29, but her condition deteriorated post-delivery.

She was then taken to Manipal Hospital, where she passed away on March 31. The Sassoon hospital's six-member panel had sent its report regarding the postnatal death of Bhise to the police "by hand" on Wednesday. Pune commissioner of police (CP) Amitesh Kumar on Thursday sought clarity on four points from the committee.

The panel sent its replies to the police on Saturday, based on which the doctor was booked. Rupali Chakankar, the chairperson of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women, said, "I have the report with me. The Sassoon hospital panel has clearly remarked that there has been medical negligence on the part of Dr Ghaisas.

The hospital management must be regretting its decisions now." She said, "Everyone thought no one would be held accountable for the death of Bhise, but now the FIR has been lodged against Dr Ghaisas. Conviction under Section 106 of BNS leads to imprisonment up to five years.

" Chakankar said, "Notices would be served to other hospitals, whose roles have been questioned in the Sassoon panel's report, in the coming days. We want to send a message across Maharashtra that if there is anything wrong in the system, it would not go unpunished..