In his complaint, Anil Pandey has accused Dr Ashutosh Pandey of the polyclinic for removing a kidney of his son— Pranshu Pandey—on the pretext of performing a surgery to remove a tumour in his son’s liver.

Anil stated his son was suffering from weight and appetite loss along with swelling of the abdomen. After conducting several diagnostic and pathological tests, the doctor told him that his son had a tumor in the liver and required a surgery.

The officials of the polyclinic, however, stated that after exploratory laparotomy, a tumour was diagnosed in the child’s kidney and his liver was found to be normal. The doctors also stated that they had informed the patient’s parents about the removal of the kidney.

“We had to move to the consumer forum as the doctors started ignoring us,” said Anil, a class IV employee of Rani Laxmi Bai School.

According to the complaint, Pranshu complained of severe stomach pain in October, following which, Anil and his wife Kalyani visited the hospital where the doctors prescribed some tests like CT scan, blood tests and ultrasound scan of the abdomen. The test results showed the presence of a mass lesion in the child’s right lobe of the liver. Both the kidneys were found to be normal in shape and size.

Later on November 5, after conducting the FNAC test, the doctors told him that his son had a tumour in the liver and was advised to get his son admitted at the hospital. On November 17 the surgery was finally performed.

“After the operation, the doctors did not inform us that they had removed Pranshu’s right kidney. They asked us to visit the hospital regularly for six months,” he said.

On December 27, when Pranshu suffered from unbearable pain in the right side of his abdomen, his father rushed him to a nearby doctor who advised an ultrasound. The test showed the boy’s right kidney missing.

The clinic, however, stated that after the kidney was removed along with the tumour, the patient was put on chemotherapy. They maintained that the parents had been informed.