The Borella Police reported yesterday (9) to Colombo Additional Magistrate Mrs. Rajindra Jayasuriya that only one of the two kidneys removed from a three-year-old boy’s operation at the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital is in the hospital’s laboratory and an investigation has been started to find the other kidney. Sri Lanka Latest News
The police told the court that although the right kidney was removed along with the left kidney during the child’s kidney surgery, the police said that there is only one kidney in the hospital laboratory.
The Borella police informed the court about this by submitting all the child’s clinical medical reports to the court.
The forensic doctor Ruhul Haque has informed the court in the post-mortem report that the child was born with one kidney, but according to the clinical medical reports of the child, it is revealed that he had two kidneys and there have already been controversies regarding the autopsy reports issued by the said forensic doctor. Yesterday (9), the police had submitted these reports to the court according to a notice given to the police by the magistrate the previous day.
The lawyer representing the aggrieved party asked the court to issue an order to the police to conduct an impartial investigation into the incident.
The deceased child’s father gave the autopsy evidence.
Testifying on the guidance of the Borella Police, he said that his wife gave birth to his child on 11/04/2020 at Colombo Castle Women’s Hospital with a birth weight of 3 kg 550g and at six months, something like a tumour was seen in the abdomen.
The witness who said that he showed the child’s left kidney to a specialist doctor in a private hospital and the said doctor found out that the child had a problem in his left kidney. 2022/12/24 Mr. Navin Wijekoon, a specialist, said that the surgery to remove the left kidney was performed at Borella Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Randula Ranawaka said that since the right kidney is 90% functional, there is no need for a kidney transplant and the left kidney should be removed as some infections may develop when the child grows up. The child was admitted to ward number five of the children’s hospital and Dr. Chaidya Navin Wijekoon performed the surgery.
He mentioned that on the day (25) after the surgery, he was referred for a scan because the child was not urinating and there he learned from Dr. Malik Samarasinghe and Dr. Randula Ranawaka that the child’s right kidney had been removed due to a mistake by the doctors.
The doctors admitted that a mistake had been made. They said that there is an alternative and that a kidney can be transplanted in three to four months.
Accordingly, the mother testified that both the child’s kidneys were removed, and on 1/26/2023, after going home, she came to the hospital for blood dialysis of the child and that the child has been hospitalized from time to time.
After several months, the doctors did not come to see the child, and then we personally channelled and went to see the doctor. Dr. Malik Samarasinghe did not give a correct answer.
Three people were taken to the hospital for kidney transplant. A kidney of one of them was compared. But the witness told the court that the doctors were not motivated to do anything.
As usual, the father testified that the child fell ill and was hospitalized on 13/6/2023 and the child died on 27/7/2023.
He testified that the deceased child was buried in the Maligawatta Muslim Public Cemetery and that his two kidneys were removed due to that this death may have occurred.
After considering the matter, the magistrate adjourned the hearing of further evidence to the 23rd of this month.
