Lessons from the tragedy How to prevent these deaths DR ABDUL
MAJID SIRAJ In the panorama of media hype, many promises were
made following the tragic events in G.B Panth Hospital. This
episode must be looked at holistically on the health services of
J&K that in itself is a huge undertaking. Nevertheless having
worked in children’s hospitals of world repute, I will try to
make a few facts known. No doctor will contribute to a death of
a patient unless he is a psychopath. The G.B Panth saga is a
culmination of vagaries of systemic failure. And deaths will not
stop, no matter how many incubators and doctors are recruited to
service. Doctors have to be made aware of legal obligations in
duty of care towards fetus. There is no liability until damnum
and injuria concur. During delivery of a foetus a duty of care
arises for the doctor to avoid injury to the emerging baby. As
soon as the baby is born and ceases to be a foetus and becomes a
person, there is a concurrence between damnum and injuria and
the baby has a r