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Charges of lapses in Kumaramangalam's treatment

Union Parliamentry Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan on Friday said the government would urge the health ministry to look into complaints of lapses in the treatment of Union Power Minister R Kumaramangalam at Apollo hospital, where he was initially.

The matter was raised in the Lok Sabha during zero hour by Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Delhi chief minister Madanlal Khurana, who accused the hospital of mishandling the treatment of Kumarmangalam, who is now waging a battle for survival at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Khurana described the hospital as a commercial shop and said it had failed to diagnose that the minister was suffering from leukaemia (blood cancer) and gave him a costly treatment without giving him a proper treatment and medical advice.

Initially, the hospital doctors told Kumaramangalam that he was suffering from simple malaria. But his condition deteriorated, Khurana said quoting family members and friends of the ailing minister, who is in a critical condition at AIIMS.

While Khurana was giving a descriptive account of how patients are allegedly fleeced at the private hospital, the members, cutting across party lines, shouted, 'Shame, shame'.

Many other members endorsed Khurana's observations, while Mahajan assured the House that he would urge the health minister to look into Kumaramangalam's case and the alleged inept handling at the hospital.

UNI

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