Fortis Healthcare — Medical Malpractice by Dr Mukul Rastogi (Fortis Hospital Noida)

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Fortis Hospital Noida

Inspiring story of your brilliant doctor, Mukul Rastogi (Fortis Noida):

A 74-year-old person visited Mukul Rastogi at Fortis Noida and humbly requested this great doctor to do something to cure fluid retention problem in his body.

After seeing the patient, Mukul Rastogi said, “the patient needs to be admitted so that fluid can be drained out of his body”.

This world's best doctor admitted him to Liver Transplant ICU instead of a private ward to drain fluid from his stomach, to get a procedure called pleural tapping done and to do a thorough body checkup. At the time of hospitalization, patient's vital signs were pretty good (Platelet count 90k-110k, Hg – 11, BP – normal, Oxygen level – normal etc.).

On what basis Mukul Rastogi decided to take the patient to Liver Transplant ICU? Was he really that critical or a right candidate for the ICU or just to mint money?

At the time of admission, Mukul Rastogi said, “the patient is too old and survival chances would be less”.

Shouldn't this great doctor be kicked-out of the hospital for talking about survival chances on the basis of patient's age?

If Mukul Rastogi in not competent enough to handle old patients then he should have put a billboard with the following text “Old patients are not treated here”.

Once the patient was taken to the Liver Transplant ICU, Mukul Rastogi and his team did a procedure and drained fluid out of patient's abdomen. The patient started feeling a lot better the same day. Afterwards, the attendants were asked to meet Mukul Rastogi by the ICU staffs. The attendants stop by the doctor's office to get the details about the patient. The doctor said, “Patient's liver doesn't look bad, liver cirrhosis may be in the initial stage, his lymph nodes are about 1 mm in size as per the latest PAT CT scan and nodes should be at least 4 mm in size to declare Lymphoma...so he should be discharged in two days...we will shortly perform pleural tapping to drain fluid from his chest/lungs area before discharging him”.

Mukul Rastogi and his team performed the pleural tapping procedure that went terribly wrong. Actually, they ruptured his tissues while doing it and suddenly internal bleeding started happening because of that. That led to rapid fall in patient's health condition. Patient's blood pressure started falling, his Hg level drastically came done to 5, platelet count came down to 30k, his oxygen level went down..In a nutshell, the almost fully-recovered patient suddenly became a critical one because of that incident. Surprisingly, they performed the procedure without checking patient's blood group. Due to excess blood loss, they decided to give him 6 units of blood. The ICU staffs reached out to the Fortis Noida blood bank to determine his blood group...unfortunately, the patient had O -ve blood group which is considered as rarest of rare blood group. The blood bank just had 1 unit of O -ve so the attendants were asked to get 2 units of blood from Fortis-Escort Delhi and 4 units from their own sources. The attendants rushed to Fortis-Escort hospital and bought two units of blood from there and brought remaining 4 units from their own sources as well.

Why didn't this great doctor ask for getting patient's blood group determined prior to getting the procedure done?

Why didn't the doctor and ICU staffs check to see if sufficient amount of blood is available in their blood bank or not?

Why weren't patient's attendants properly briefed about issues related to pleural tapping?

Later, AIIMS and RML doctors told the attendants that pleural tapping is an easy procedure to perform and can easily be performed by medical graduates..it's a daycare procedure and doesn't require any hospitalization.

Shouldn't hospital authority kick out whosoever did the tapping procedure terribly wrong?

Afterwards, the attendants were asked to authorize the doctors to perform open chest surgery to determine the spot where internal bleeding was happening...They said, “survival chances after the surgery is less”...somehow, the internal bleeding stopped happening on it's own and next day onward patient's health condition started improving. Without any valid reasons, the relevant doctor kept insisting on doing chest surgery although everything started looking normal in the X-Ray.

If everything was normal then why that doctor (know him by his face) insisted on doing surgery? Do they get paid or something for doing each surgery? Will share the name soon if needed.

Afterwards, everything started coming back to normal. Mukul Rastogi called the attendants and said, “it's a miracle (as he did not do anything to save him) and the patient is getting back to normal and will be discharged within two days”.

But on the same day around 10 pm, the attendants were told that the patient needs to be put on ventilator as a precautionary measure as CO2 level is on the higher side.., , if it is not done quickly, the patient may crash...the ICU doctor (Amit) put him on ventilator. After a couple of days, the patient started coming back to normal. With his low platelet count (25k), Mukul Rastogi and his ICU team decided to stop administering sedatives and that might have led to massive internal bleeding in his brain...afterwards, the doctors gave up on him.

Further, Mukul Rastogi started pretending to be innocent and started attributing Lymphoma for everything although it wasn't fully diagnosed yet. He kept changing his statement, was being so rude throughout the treatment. Kept changing his statements.

Mukul puts the final nail in patient's coffin by putting together fake details in the case summary by attributing the internal bleeding in brain to Lymphoma, family negligence etc, etc. The attendants tried hard to get the patient transferred to some other hospital but no hospitals were ready to take the patient on the basis of that fake case summary details.

Finally, patient's attendants coordinated with central government agencies and AIIMS senior staffs, and managed to get a ventilator equipped bed in the ICU (AIIMS). The attendants got the patient transferred to AIIMS but it was too late. The patient survived there was about 20 hours and ultimately died. Per the AIIMS doctor, the patient had already reached the end stage when he was brought to AIIMS. They also said, “the patient was kept on a high does of sedatives at Fortis Noida”.

Why was the patient kept on a high dose of sedative if his platelet count was too low?


Fortunately, the patient didn't take his last breath in that killer Liver Transplant ICU. His death certificate will have AIIMS, Delhi mentioned on it instead of Fortis Noida.

The attendants clearly observed one sharp difference between Mukul Rastogi (along with his killer team) and AIIMS doctors.
Mukul Rastogi never showed willingness to do something extraordinary to save the patient and chose a path (without keeping Patient's age in mind) that earns him more money. He and his team don't have any work ethics. Whereas AIIMS doctor showed eagerness to save the patient and their body language was so positive and tried really hard...Unlike these so-called doctors...they are actually monsters.

Hope after reading this true story Fortis Healthcare would take harsh action against Mukul Rastogi (a money-minded greedy doctor) who never showed willingness to provide best treatment to his patients.

Fortis Healthcare is a reputed name and these doctors do every possible things to put a dent on the reputation. It's not only a loss of life...it's actually a loss of trust...