NEW DELHI - The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents’ watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
Instead, the boy’s father could be stripped of his licenses and may face criminal charges, officials said Thursday.
Dr. K. Murugesan showed a recording of his son performing a Caesarean section to an Indian Medical Association chapter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu last month, said Dr. Venkatesh Prasad, secretary of the association. The video showed Murugesan anesthetizing the patient.
“We were shocked to see the recording,” Prasad told The Associated Press, adding that the IMA told Murugesan that his act was an ethical and legal violation.
Murugesan owns and runs a maternity hospital in the city of Manaparai, Prasad said in a telephone interview from Manaparai. The family could not be immediately reached for comment.
Murugesan, who could possibly be prevented from practicing and face criminal charges for allowing his son to perform the operation, expressed no regret and accused the Manaparai medical association of being “jealous” of his son’s achievements, Prasad added.
“He said this was not the first surgery performed by his son and that he had been training him for the last three years,” said Prasad.
Murugesan told the medical association that he wanted to see his son’s name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Prasad said that his team had reported the surgery to the state’s top medical association in state capital, Chennai.
State health secretary V.K. Subburaj told reporters Thursday that the government would investigate.
“We’ll get the report and then we’ll see whether there are any violations ... prima facie it looks like there is a big violation,” he said.
“We will definitely take action against the concerned medical officers.”
what if the surgury had gone wrong... lolz stupid kid... <3 <3 <3 i wonder if he sitll be famouse if the patient died uhm what people do to achieve success so sad...
Uh isn't this the woman's fault for not complaining about the kid doing surgery on her?
I'm pretty sure she signed some sort of release or non-liability thing. I doubt she knew about any problems with the law or legal issues, otherwise she probably would've said no. Or maybe she just wanted to be in The Guiness Book of World Records, too.
I'm pretty sure she signed some sort of release or non-liability thing. I doubt she knew about any problems with the law or legal issues, otherwise she probably would've said no. Or maybe she just wanted to be in The Guiness Book of World Records, too.
Knowing Indians (cough) i dont think she signed anything, but I agree with her prob. doin it of the Guiness Book of World Records
travis
i should know