Order in Civil Suit before Maharashtra Medical Council; Committee of 10 experienced doctors. They have implicated serious ADRs of injection Rokfos manufactured by Cipla Ltd.
The Order is reproduced below:
Charges framed by Medical Council were as follows:
- Respondents had administered “Rokfoszoledronic” acid without blood investigation of patient.
- Consent for administering “Rokfos injection” was not taken by respondents.
- Proper documentation not maintained by respondents.
- Treatment was not provided as per severity of disease.
- Required investigation of patient was not done.
- After complication, respondents had failed to detect the reason & treat the patient.
- Dose of methotrexate medicine was not mentioned on paper provided before committee in spite of advising and prescribing the same.
Executive Committee resolution dated 09/01/2021 is reproduced as under :
- After detailed discussion & deliberations, the committee observed that,
- On the next day of admission, the patient’s platelets and WBC dropped down rapidly. The platelets had dropped from 143,000 to 20,000 and WBC from 20,080 to 200.
- However, RMP ignored and transferred the patient for surgery to another hospital which was scheduled on the 16/06/2014.
- In spite of adverse reaction RMP had not taken action.
- RMP was alleged to have given methotrexate to the patient as supported by prescription, bills, treatment sheet.
- Discharge card was not filled properly when patient was transferred to another hospital for surgery.
- Therefore, the Council has passed sentence to remove the Registration No.2001031433 of Dr.Mihirgiri Goswami (Respondent1) for a period of 3 months from the Register of the Council.