Kerala government probes needle negligence case at Kottayam medical college

…the development, Tigy Thomas Jacob, superintendent of the Kottayam MCH said he had received a complaint about the incident around three to four weeks ago and had entrusted a team of doctors with the inquiry. " The report is yet to be received. Appropriate action will be taken based on the findings of the inquiry ,” he said. The case pertains to a complaint that a needle was left lodged in the body of a newborn at the hospital shortly after her birth. The foreign object was detected and surgically removed only after the child…