S.M. Kantikar, Member—“Careful pre-operative work-up of every transplant candidate is mandatory to improve post-transplant organ and patient survival. The workup should be tailored according to patients’ specific conditions, by a multidisciplinary approach before proceeding to transplantation”.

This is a peculiar complaint, before this Commission, that two distinct grounds of negligence were advanced on behalf of the complainant, Smt.Jyoti Chopra The first one is concerned with removal of both kidneys (bilateral nephrectomy), whereas the second arm of the complaint is concerned with the management of patient after nephrectomy. It was contended that the OP doctors failed to perform a renal transplant despite availability of kidney donor.

The facts:

1. The complainant Smt. Jyoti Chopra’s husband named Mr. Praveen Kumar Chopra, (since deceased- herein referred as “Patient”) consulted Dr. Vijay Kher, a Nephrologist of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital i.e. OP-1 on 13.2.1998. The patient was diagnosed as a case of Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) with bilateral Nephrolithiasis (stone). But, further, Dr.Kler neither investigated the patient nor advised any treatment or dialysis. As a mandatory