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Durban – A patient\u2019s widow has accused an uMhlanga doctor of misdiagnosing her husband, keeping inadequate clinical notes of his treatment, not noting his medical history and failing to admit him to hospital for further observation. <\/p>\n
The accusations against Dr Sujatha Hariparsad, of Netcare Umhlanga Hospital, were heard in a Health Professions Council hearing in uMhlanga on Monday. He has pleaded not guilty. He treated Ravine Parmanand, 40, in 2008, one day before he died of a suspected heart attack. <\/p>\n
Pamela Parmanand is seeking legal action against Hariparsad, who, she alleges, misdiagnosed her husband. <\/p>\n
On Monday, a Dr S Maharaj, who worked in the trauma unit at the Mount Edgecombe Hospital where Parmanand was brought after he collapsed, testified how <\/p>\n
he tried to revive him the day after he was treated and discharged from hospital by Hariparsad. <\/p>\n
Maharaj told the hearing that Parmanand did not show any \u201cvital signs\u201d when he was brought in by paramedics. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe did cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and terminated it after 35 minutes. We even tried to defibrillate him,\u201d he said. This is when electrical energy is administered to a stopped heart to get it beating again. <\/p>\n
\u201cCPR was done at least four times, but he was dead on arrival,\u201d Maharaj said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Attorney Altus Janse van Rensburg, acting for Hariparsad, questioned Maharaj\u2019s conclusion that Parmanand had died of \u201cnatural causes\u201d. <\/p>\n
Maharaj said Pamela Parmanand had told him that her husband had a history of chest pain. <\/p>\n
Van Rensburg then asked Maharaj how he reached his conclusion, based on Pamela Parmanand\u2019s information. <\/p>\n
\u201cBased on the history told by his wife and my examination, the cause was a heart attack,\u201d said Maharaj. <\/p>\n
Maharaj conceded that a post-mortem was not done, and there was a possibility the cause of death may not have been a heart attack. <\/p>\n
Under cross-examination by advocate Meshack Mapholisa, Maharaj said it was normal for doctors in \u201ccertain instances\u201d to determine a patient\u2019s death through receiving information from a relative. <\/p>\n
Mapholisa called cardiologist Dr Rodney Mattison after Dr Ravinkumar Ramdass, who was expected to give an expert\u2019s testimony, did not show up. Mattison testified he had not been given all the necessary documents, but agreed with Maharaj that information from family was important. <\/p>\n
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