Bangalore: A 43-year-old professor from Assam, who had come to Bangalore for a surgery to get his fractured left hand fixed, died in a private hospital in the city on Monday.
His wife and relatives alleged that medical negligence had caused TH Robert Tiba’s death. The doctors, however, said he had developed hypoxic encephalopathy, a medical condition caused by inadequate supply of oxygen to the brain, and died.
“He collapsed after a nurse gave him an injection at 4 am on January 28,” Tiba’s wife RK Bijeta said. “The nurse was not properly trained. When I asked her what went wrong, she said such things happen.” Tiba then went into a coma and was in the intensive care unit for 11 days.
Bijeta said Tiba was brought to Bangalore on January 26 after he met with a car accident in Guwahati a day before. His relatives alleged that the doctors at the hospital kept them in the dark about his deteriorating medical condition.
Hospital authorities, however, denied the allegations. “He was suffering from hypoxic encephalopathy due to idiosyncratic anaphylactic reaction,” a senior authority said. “He was given a pain killer soon after the surgery, and he was feeling better after that. When the same pain killer was given to him a second time, he developed a rare reaction, which was not anticipated. It is not a case of medical negligence.”
Tiba was head of the history department on the Diphu campus of Assam University. The post-mortem examination will be conducted in Bowring Hospital on Tuesday.
(With inputs from Soumita Majumdar)
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