Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh on Saturday urged the medical fraternity to take responsibility for incidents of negligence since a growing number of mistreatment cases were threatening the “holy patient-doctor relationship”.
Inaugurating the 9th annual conference of the South India Medico Legal Association (SIMLA) organised at JIPMER here, he appealed to the fraternity to treat patients with an ethical conscience. “Despite the best efforts of modern science, inadvertent happenings take place and a patient may have to face the consequences. There may be situations where it is simply no one’s fault,” Singh said, adding that it was imperative for forensic experts to present the facts in their originality before the courts.
Raising concerns over the rising demand for organs, Singh urged JIPMER to initiate the ‘Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation’ encompassing the medico-legal issues related to any type of organ transplantation.
He hoped that doctors from across disciplines would learn to adopt latest methods to fight bio-terrorism. The function was presided over by JIPMER director Dr T S Ravikumar who stressed the need for integration of disciplines of medical science and forensic medicine.
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