The Delhi Police will proceed with its probe into the case of a newborn being wrongly declared dead by a city-based hospital only after it receives a reply from the Delhi Medical Council on whether there was medical negligence in the matter, a police official said.
The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has received replies from the nine doctors and two nurses ofMaxHospital, Shalimar Bagh who were issued notices last month for alleged medical negligence inconnection with the case.
A senior DMC official said that they have received the replies and these will be put up before its executive committee.
The committee will form an expert panel comprising paediatricians and gynaecologists that will prepare a report in the matter, he said.
The process might take a fortnight.
A police official, privy to the probe, said that they will proceed further with the investigation only after they receive a report in the matter from the DMC.
The DMC had sent the notices on December 20 and sought aresponse from them within 15 days.
The case pertains to a baby boy being wrongly declareddead after his birth on November 30 by the upscale privatehospital. His twin, a girl, was still-born.
The infantboy died a week later at a nursing home in Pitampura. The case sparked a public outcry.
Their family has beenprotesting in front of the hospital after an appellateauthority stayed the order of the Delhi government cancellingthe licence of the facility.
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