He says he has suffered from depression since he lost the use of his kidneys. While he used to go to the gym three times a week, he can no longer practice it. He is seeking redress in the Supreme Court.
Rs 25,070,000. This is the amount of damages that a 58-year-old Vacoassien is claiming from the State, the Ministry of Health and a doctor from Victoria Hospital, Candos. He alleges that he was the victim of medical negligence after he lost the use of his kidneys. He says he has been forced, since November 2020, to do three dialysis sessions a week. The resident of La Caverne No 1, who deplores “a total loss of libido”, seized the Supreme Court.
In his complaint written by attorney Kaviraj Bokhoree, the 50-year-old states that in March 2015, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and bilateral kidney stones at Victoria Hospital, Candos. In November of the same year, he underwent radiation therapy. Then, in March 2016, at the Bon Pasteur clinic, he underwent a prostate resection.
Due to persistent kidney stone formation, she had a ureteral stent inserted into her kidney to prevent stones of a certain size from obstructing the ureter. This device should be replaced every three months. His was removed in June 2016 at the Clinique Mauricienne.
On the other hand, the 50-year-old claims that from June 2016 to October 2017, at Victoria Hospital, a doctor from the Surgical Outpatient department performed several “extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy” (ESWL) sessions on him due to the presence of stones. This procedure involves sending shock waves to target a kidney stone to break it into small pieces.
“ESWL must be performed with a ureteral stent already in place, so that pieces of broken stones do not block the ureter,” explains the complainant. However, according to him, the doctor at the hospital performed this procedure on him in the absence of a ureteral stent. Which means that he would have developed complications afterwards, in particular infections of the small urinary tracts.
In August 2019, he had to be hospitalized at Victoria Hospital for five days for a severe urinary tract infection. He maintains that the doctor made him undergo an ESWL in the right kidney without having previously placed a ureteral stent. Medical reports will later indicate that he suffers from complete failure of the right kidney.
He was again admitted to the hospital to treat his left kidney. Plagued by other health complications, the patient said he had resigned himself to consulting a private doctor, Dr. Balbir Singh Verma. The latter, he says, “saved his life” after two interventions in September 2020 and December 2020.
However, “it was too late to save [son] left kidney”. He had to spend Rs 1 million in private clinic fees and also Rs 70,000 monthly in medicine.
Until June 2020, the 50-year-old said, he worked as a textile technician and used to travel mainly to South Africa to improve his skills in his field of expertise, which is textile safety. But since then, he can neither work nor travel nor practice sports. He has also become “dependent on his family members and suffers from severe depression, complete loss of libido, bad temper, insomnia, irritability and pessimistic thoughts, for which he cannot take any treatment. long-term due to kidney failure. Hence his appeal to the Supreme Court.