A High Court division bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Zahirul Hoque passed the order, asking Comilla civil surgeon, owner of Life Hospital and Digital Diagnostic Centre in Gouripur, Comilla and Dr Sheikh Hosne Ara Begum, who conducted the surgery, to appear before the court on November 7 and submit their explanations.
The court issued the order as Supreme Court lawyer Mahfuzur Rahman Milon drew the court’s attention to the newspaper reports over the matter.
According to the reports, Dr Hosne Ara conducted Caesarean section on Khadiza Akter, 22, who was admitted to the clinic on September 18.
The doctor stitched up Khadiza’a womb right after bringing out one of her twin fetus, saying the surgery is done. She even declared the other fetus as tumour in her report.
Khadiza suffered from severe pain in her abdomen for one long month after going to home from the clinic.
Later, she was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on October 25, where doctors brought out her another fetus in lifeless
condition.
Salma Rouf, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at DMCH, told The Daily Star that Khadija had experienced a very rare phenomenon where one of the twins develops within the uterus and another outside of it.
This led Gouripur physician Hosne Ara to assume that the baby outside the uterus was a tumour.
