There was no record anywhere that Jai Narayan was declared dead - Dr May

There was no record anywhere that Jai Narayan was declared dead - Dr May

By Vijay Narayan and Anamika Singh
Wednesday 08/11/2017
59-year-old Jai Narayan

The consultant physician at the CWM Hospital, Doctor William May today told the High Court that there was no record anywhere in 59-year-old, Jai Narayan’s hospital folder that he was declared dead.

Doctor William May took the stand for CWM Hospital in the compensation claim case of Jai Narayan who has alleged that a doctor at the hospital had administered him wrong medication and pronounced him dead in 2013.

He said he had been the consultant on call the night before the incident and had to do his rounds the next day looking at new and old admission cases.

He said Jai Narayan was brought in from the Emergency Department to the Medical Ward.

Doctor May said he had noted that the patient’s vital signs were normal except for a sound in the heart.

He said that he had noticed that Jai Narayan had received other forms of penicillin before and had not reacted to it in the past.

Doctor May said Narayan had taken oral amoxicillin two days before.

He said that it is unusual for a person who had already been given penicillin previously to react and that if the person had confirmed that he was taking penicillin than it would be unusual to go through those steps again to see if he is allergic.

Narayan’s lawyer Leena Goundar then said a referring doctor had earlier noted in Jai Narayan’s folder that he had shown signs of allergic reaction to penicillin in 2009 which was not included in Doctor May’s report.

Goundar then put to him that he had deliberately not included Narayan’s allergic reaction in 2009 to protect the doctor who had administered the penicillin.

Doctor May did not agree to this.

She also put to him that it was possible that the doctor had declared Narayan dead on that day because Doctor May was not there.

Doctor May said there was no such report in Narayan’s folder.

Judge Lyone Senevitratne will give his judgement on the 29th of January, 2018.

Jai Narayan of 8 miles Narere says he is allergic to penicillin however he was given the shot by the doctor at CWM.

The man went to the hospital in the early hours of 19th of March, 2013 in an ambulance because he had a pain on his side.

They claim that the doctor did not ask for allergies before she administered him penicillin and two other drugs.

Narayan had a reaction after getting the shots.

He says that he then lost consciousness.

When he opened his eyes, he saw his family members crying.

Narayan alleges that he was pronounced dead by the doctor.

The lawyer representing CWM Hospital says that the doctor did not declare Jai Narayan dead.

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