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6-man team to probe Ranga's treatment

A six-member inquiry committee, comprising noted physicians, will go into all aspects of treatment provided to the late power minister P R Kumaramangalam at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, the Union health ministry announced on Friday.

The committee, headed by Dr C P Singh, medical superintendent of the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, has been asked to submit its report within two weeks to Health Minister C P Thakur, an official press note said.

The inquiry comes in the wake of demands for a probe into the treatment given to Ranga, as Kumaramangalam was popularly known, at Apollo hospital.

Other members of the committee are Lt Gen (rtd) D Raghunath, former director general, Armed Forces Medical Services, Bangalore, Dr K R Sethuraman, MD, professor of medicine at Pondicherry, Dr E Chandra Sekaran, MD, consultant-medicine, RML hospital, Dr P S Gupta, MD, senior consultant-medicine, Gangaram hospital, New Delhi and Dr Mammen Chandy, head of department, haemotology, Christian Medical College.

Earlier, the issue of treatment of Kumaramangalam at Apollo hospital had been raised in Parliament with members expressing reservations over the treatment.

Apollo hospital chairman Pratap C Reddy subsequently clarified that Kumaramangalam had been admitted to the hospital for 10 days in April for treatment of fever and was discharged on his own request.

Kumaramangalam died on August 23 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences following multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest.

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