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duty because instead of administering the injection
himself he permitted the nurse to give the injection. There was clear dereliction of
duty on the part ... negligence :
(i) Removal of the wrong limb;
(ii) Performance of an operation on
the wrong patient;
(iii) Giving injection of a drug
to which
angioneurotic oedema with allergic vasculitis was wrong.
In any event, prescribing a long acting corticosteroid
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`Depomedrol' injection at a dose
have been pressed into service by
the prosecution was that the injections were recovered from a lane near the
house of the accused ... Organo
Phosphorous' which was administered to him. This finding is apparently
wrong. The doctor's opinion as is evident from
Ins. Malhotra vs A. Kirplani & Ors on 24 March, 2009
Equivalent citations: AIR 2009