Indian Police Defend Doctor Who Removed Kidney During Appendectomy

Via The Indian Express:

Thirty-year-old Surendra Das, a rickshaw-puller, died on Friday night after remaining on dialysis for 20 days. This was after a doctor near his village in Munhar allegedly took out his lone kidney while removing his appendix.
Police, however, say Dr R P Gupta did it unknowingly…

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Allen
WHAT?
Appendix: RLQ, about the size of a little finger, located at the end of the cecum;
Kidney: size of your fist, retroperitoneal, huge blood supply, might recall from anatomy class.
What the heck?
There has to be more to the story than this.
GruntDoc
SarahW
From this related article, an explanation of police statements regarding the incident:
“Police investigations reveal that the clinic run by a local chemist was unlicensed and the doctor who operated upon Surendra had nothing but a fake medical degree. Not surprisingly both of them have now gone missing.
The police however, insist that the accused had not removed the kidney with the intention of selling it. It was instead removed by accident and left behind in a jar.
‘If they wanted to sell it, why would they not preserve it and instead let it rot? This is actually not a kidney racket but a quack who did not know what he was doing,’ said P K Das, DSP, Mehnar.”
Anonymous
hello
i’m an indian med student and this news was a shock to me too because we have been lobbying hard with the govenment of india for a very long time (read decades) to abolish such illegal medical practise.
but our voices go unheard.these quacks are seen everywhere.they have is good pr skills and this is what draws hordes of people to them even when we have the best trained docs in the world as evident in the us where a sizeable population of doctors of indian origin practise.
it is time for the international community to wake up and make the indian govt change its attitude towards this appaling state of affairs.

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