Private Hospital under probe

The Private Health Service Regulatory Council (PHSRC), which initiated investigations into a Private Hospital in Wattala, noted that the surgeon who performed the surgery on the 31-year-old woman had several complaints against him. 

Sources for the PHSRC yesterday (29) said that while the surgery had been conducted at the Private Hospital, the patient had been transferred to the Colombo North Teaching Hospital (Ragama) on 3 September 2022 where she died. They said that the surgeon was attached to the particular State Hospital.

The Colombo North Teaching Hospital noted that action could be taken against the surgeon involved in a surgery which allegedly claimed the life of a 31-year-old patient, once it completed the preliminary investigation and submitted the report to the Health Ministry.

Colombo North Teaching Hospital Director Dr. S.L.Ranaweera, when contacted, said that any form of disciplinary action could be taken “only after the preliminary probe report was submitted to the Health Ministry.”

A young woman from the Ja-ela area, who suffered complications following abdominal surgical intervention at a leading private hospital in Ragama, died 25 days later at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital.