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Dr Nigel Heaton, Kings College UK team, Dr Kancherla Ravindranth of Global Hospital, Hyderabad and a failed Adult-Live Liver Transplant and BBC UK
BBC UK, Dr Nigel Heaton of Kings College Hospital team, and Dr Kancherla Ravindranath's Global Hospital, Hyderabad and their live experiment on Adult Live Liver Transplant.
An Open letter to Ms Jane Aldous, the BBC producer of this programme and Dr Chitra Barucha
of BBC.
The following is Ms Jane Aldous reply to a mail requesting the release of tapes of the Adult Live Liver Transplant on Mr & Mrs A. Jagannatham recorded by Ms Jane Aldous' BBC UK team .
The BBC were asked for the tape recordings. This is what they said
Dear Mr. Uday Bhaskar.
Thank you for your email regarding the release of footage of the operation perfomed by Dr.
Heaton last year and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. As I am sure you are aware, your parents did give their consent to the filming and also gave their permission for Dr. Heaton to go ahead with the operation, knowing that the risks were high. I have spoken to a number of people in the BBC about the release of the footage and I am afraid that the BBC has a long standing policy of not releasing untransmitted material, especially where such requests are non specific and general in nature. As you can imagine, in the case of your parents' operation there was a great deal of material shot. If you could let me have some more detail of what you believe we may have in the footage that is of interest to you, the BBC may be able to consider the matter further.
Once again I would like to extend my sympathies to your family both for the loss of your
father and the continued illness of your mother.
Yours sincerely
Jane AldousExecutive ProducerSpecialist Features & BusinessTel: 0208 752 6142Fax: 0208 752 5445e-mail: jane.aldous@bbc.co.uk
Ms Jane Aldous , Dr Chitra Baroucha and team,
I have some open questions for you. Since this is a case in the public domain involving patients from India, Doctors from UK, & India and the BBC UK.
Ms Jane Aldous , why are you protecting Dr Nigel Heaton and Global Hospitals at the cost of
Mr & Mrs Jagannatham, by not providing us to access the tapes you made for Kings College and Dr Nigel Heaton.
In you mail you expressed your sympathies at the loss of our parents but in fact by not providing us access to the tapes, you are protecting Dr Nigel Heaton of Kings College UK and team. I dont think we are looking at your lip service or your sympanthy. As you are aware of the terms 'efficiency', and media ethics and medical ethics, patients human rights, we urge you to re-look at the facts of the case.
Under What section/act are you not releasing the tapes of the surgery that are vital to give
justice to Late Mr & Mrs Jagannatham. Why are you oppressing the vital facts of the case and
protetcing Dr Nigel heaton and Global Hospital at the cost of Mr & Mrs Jagannatham.
Is it because the the perforiming Doctor is honourable British Citizen and the victims
working class Indian Citizens? Mr Jagannatham sold his life savings for this surgery. Mrs Jagannatham's life was tragically cut short.
Thanks to the experiment of Dr Nigel Heaton and Kings College, UK, team and Hyderabad based Dr Kancherla Ravindranth's Global Hospital and the BBC team is blatantly and shamelessly protecting these so called respected/eminent doctors.
Where are the BBC ethics for Mr & Mrs Jagannatham? BBC is such a respected Global media
organization? Why are you playing mischievous satan for Mr & Mrs Jagannatham's case.
Despite numeorus letters and complaints to the GMC, the NHS UK, the BBC UK , all of the
'British' organizations have ignored and looked the other way when contacted with our case.
Can you show me anyother such instance of medical negligence in the world, where the donor
and the recipient both died tragicially.
Ms Jane Aldous, Dr, Chitra Barucha and the Worldwide BBC family, are you not protecting the
wrong doers involving British and Indian doctors at the cost of helpless Indian victims?
Why are you protecting the unethical acts of Dr Nigel Heaton and team from Kings College and
the Hyderabad based Global Hospitals?
Are Dr Nigel Heaton, Kings College and your BBC team above law? This is worse then the medical joke, "Operation Successful, Patient Dead"
It is 60 plus years since India became an independent Conutry, yet the British system is
preudiced against Indians;Knowingly or unknowingly as part of the BBC team You and your team are a living example of of being part of this. Although we are born in Independent India, from what we as a famaily have gone through, and the response i have been recieving from the BBC, GMC & NHS, I can visulaize what might have happened during colonial rule in India.
Ms Jane Aldous and Dr Chitra Barcuha, can i know the BBC media ethics policy.
Is not the role of media to bring out news and show to the world the facts. Does BBC have
any media ethics when it involves British Doctors and Indian Patients?
An Open letter to Ms Jane Aldous, the BBC producer of this programme and Dr Chitra Barucha
of BBC.
The following is Ms Jane Aldous reply to a mail requesting the release of tapes of the Adult Live Liver Transplant on Mr & Mrs A. Jagannatham recorded by Ms Jane Aldous' BBC UK team .
The BBC were asked for the tape recordings. This is what they said
Dear Mr. Uday Bhaskar.
Thank you for your email regarding the release of footage of the operation perfomed by Dr.
Heaton last year and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. As I am sure you are aware, your parents did give their consent to the filming and also gave their permission for Dr. Heaton to go ahead with the operation, knowing that the risks were high. I have spoken to a number of people in the BBC about the release of the footage and I am afraid that the BBC has a long standing policy of not releasing untransmitted material, especially where such requests are non specific and general in nature. As you can imagine, in the case of your parents' operation there was a great deal of material shot. If you could let me have some more detail of what you believe we may have in the footage that is of interest to you, the BBC may be able to consider the matter further.
Once again I would like to extend my sympathies to your family both for the loss of your
father and the continued illness of your mother.
Yours sincerely
Jane AldousExecutive ProducerSpecialist Features & BusinessTel: 0208 752 6142Fax: 0208 752 5445e-mail: jane.aldous@bbc.co.uk
Ms Jane Aldous , Dr Chitra Baroucha and team,
I have some open questions for you. Since this is a case in the public domain involving patients from India, Doctors from UK, & India and the BBC UK.
Ms Jane Aldous , why are you protecting Dr Nigel Heaton and Global Hospitals at the cost of
Mr & Mrs Jagannatham, by not providing us to access the tapes you made for Kings College and Dr Nigel Heaton.
In you mail you expressed your sympathies at the loss of our parents but in fact by not providing us access to the tapes, you are protecting Dr Nigel Heaton of Kings College UK and team. I dont think we are looking at your lip service or your sympanthy. As you are aware of the terms 'efficiency', and media ethics and medical ethics, patients human rights, we urge you to re-look at the facts of the case.
Under What section/act are you not releasing the tapes of the surgery that are vital to give
justice to Late Mr & Mrs Jagannatham. Why are you oppressing the vital facts of the case and
protetcing Dr Nigel heaton and Global Hospital at the cost of Mr & Mrs Jagannatham.
Is it because the the perforiming Doctor is honourable British Citizen and the victims
working class Indian Citizens? Mr Jagannatham sold his life savings for this surgery. Mrs Jagannatham's life was tragically cut short.
Thanks to the experiment of Dr Nigel Heaton and Kings College, UK, team and Hyderabad based Dr Kancherla Ravindranth's Global Hospital and the BBC team is blatantly and shamelessly protecting these so called respected/eminent doctors.
Where are the BBC ethics for Mr & Mrs Jagannatham? BBC is such a respected Global media
organization? Why are you playing mischievous satan for Mr & Mrs Jagannatham's case.
Despite numeorus letters and complaints to the GMC, the NHS UK, the BBC UK , all of the
'British' organizations have ignored and looked the other way when contacted with our case.
Can you show me anyother such instance of medical negligence in the world, where the donor
and the recipient both died tragicially.
Ms Jane Aldous, Dr, Chitra Barucha and the Worldwide BBC family, are you not protecting the
wrong doers involving British and Indian doctors at the cost of helpless Indian victims?
Why are you protecting the unethical acts of Dr Nigel Heaton and team from Kings College and
the Hyderabad based Global Hospitals?
Are Dr Nigel Heaton, Kings College and your BBC team above law? This is worse then the medical joke, "Operation Successful, Patient Dead"
It is 60 plus years since India became an independent Conutry, yet the British system is
preudiced against Indians;Knowingly or unknowingly as part of the BBC team You and your team are a living example of of being part of this. Although we are born in Independent India, from what we as a famaily have gone through, and the response i have been recieving from the BBC, GMC & NHS, I can visulaize what might have happened during colonial rule in India.
Ms Jane Aldous and Dr Chitra Barcuha, can i know the BBC media ethics policy.
Is not the role of media to bring out news and show to the world the facts. Does BBC have
any media ethics when it involves British Doctors and Indian Patients?
We are not gods, Dr Kancherla Ravindranath MD Global Hospitals
The Hindu : Front Page : Liver donor dies in city hospital
He said that the Global Hospitals had so far carried out eight `live donor' liver transplants, but Prameela was the first donor to have died.
Dr. K.Ravindranath, MD of the hospital, said:"We are not gods. We did every thing we could. The surgery was successful; his (recipient) liver was functioning well enough. Sepsis affects 20% transplant patients. The drugs we gave also numb the immune system further. If not for our efforts, Prameela(the donor) would not have lived so long
...www.hindu.com/2007/01/10/stories/2007011027460100.htm
Despite emails to BBC & GMC & NHS UK, No one has looked into this case, which has several implications.
The BBC, the GMC, the NHS UK & Kings College, all of them are washing their hands of this case.
Here is a related blog done by my friend Dr Rita Pal and her team from NHS exposed. Many Thanks to her valubale time and effort.
http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/human-experimentation-on-indians-prof.html
http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-mr-nigel-heaton-doing-kings.html
We are victims of racist mindset: Indian doctors :
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/08/11/stories/2007081161911900.htm
http://blog.telugu-world.com/2007/01/horrible-medical-story-in-hospital-in.html
Dr. K.Ravindranath, MD of the hospital, said:"We are not gods. We did every thing we could. The surgery was successful; his (recipient) liver was functioning well enough. Sepsis affects 20% transplant patients. The drugs we gave also numb the immune system further. If not for our efforts, Prameela(the donor) would not have lived so long".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70166.cms
Donor Rights.txt
http://www.ijme.in/141cr37.html
http://www.ijme.in/133cv01.html
Medical negligence: AP family bears the brunt
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?id=74208&frmsrch=1&txtsrch=liver%2Cglobal%2Chospital
http://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk/content/about_us/charity_content_associated_docs/Report%20&%20%20Accounts%20Final.pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s349216.htm
http://groups.google.co.in/group/liver-transplant-gone-wrong
State Health Department Cites Mt. Sinai Medical Center for Deficient Care in Living Liver Donor Death
Last updated by srinu...@gmail.com - 6 Feb 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
LIVER TRANSPLANT INDIA AT WWW.LIVERTRANSPLANT.IN
Last updated by ALPESH NASIT - 5 Oct 2008 - 1 author - 2 pages long
He said that the Global Hospitals had so far carried out eight `live donor' liver transplants, but Prameela was the first donor to have died.
Dr. K.Ravindranath, MD of the hospital, said:"We are not gods. We did every thing we could. The surgery was successful; his (recipient) liver was functioning well enough. Sepsis affects 20% transplant patients. The drugs we gave also numb the immune system further. If not for our efforts, Prameela(the donor) would not have lived so long
...www.hindu.com/2007/01/10/stories/2007011027460100.htm
Despite emails to BBC & GMC & NHS UK, No one has looked into this case, which has several implications.
The BBC, the GMC, the NHS UK & Kings College, all of them are washing their hands of this case.
Here is a related blog done by my friend Dr Rita Pal and her team from NHS exposed. Many Thanks to her valubale time and effort.
http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/human-experimentation-on-indians-prof.html
http://nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-mr-nigel-heaton-doing-kings.html
We are victims of racist mindset: Indian doctors :
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/08/11/stories/2007081161911900.htm
http://blog.telugu-world.com/2007/01/horrible-medical-story-in-hospital-in.html
Dr. K.Ravindranath, MD of the hospital, said:"We are not gods. We did every thing we could. The surgery was successful; his (recipient) liver was functioning well enough. Sepsis affects 20% transplant patients. The drugs we gave also numb the immune system further. If not for our efforts, Prameela(the donor) would not have lived so long".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70166.cms
Donor Rights.txt
http://www.ijme.in/141cr37.html
http://www.ijme.in/133cv01.html
Medical negligence: AP family bears the brunt
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?id=74208&frmsrch=1&txtsrch=liver%2Cglobal%2Chospital
http://www.britishlivertrust.org.uk/content/about_us/charity_content_associated_docs/Report%20&%20%20Accounts%20Final.pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s349216.htm
http://groups.google.co.in/group/liver-transplant-gone-wrong
State Health Department Cites Mt. Sinai Medical Center for Deficient Care in Living Liver Donor Death
Last updated by srinu...@gmail.com - 6 Feb 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
LIVER TRANSPLANT INDIA AT WWW.LIVERTRANSPLANT.IN
Last updated by ALPESH NASIT - 5 Oct 2008 - 1 author - 2 pages long
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