{"id":56013,"date":"2023-09-25T19:51:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/minor-loses-appeal-in-hand-deformation-case-against-doctors-hospital"},"modified":"2023-09-25T21:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:18:39","slug":"minor-loses-appeal-in-hand-deformation-case-against-doctors-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/minor-loses-appeal-in-hand-deformation-case-against-doctors-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Minor loses appeal in hand deformation case against Doctor\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>A 4-year-old child has lost an appeal in which he challenged a private hospital he accused of negligence while administering medicine to him, leading to deforming his hand.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Emma, a minor suing through his mother Emma Aulo as his next of friend, appealed against an October 22, 2021 decision by Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners\u2019 Council that exonerated a medic at Doctor\u2019s Hospital Sseguku Limited.<\/p>\n

The Council held that \u201cthe medic or hospital was mot professionally negligent in managing and treating him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dismissing the appeal on Monday, High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana ruled that \u201ca doctor is not negligent if he exercises the ordinary skill of an ordinary competent man professing to have that special skill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe standard of care is that reasonably expected of a reasonably competent professional with respect to a particular field\u201d. That is, a specialist must exercise the ordinary skills of his specialty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The judge further held that when determining matters concerning the conduct of a member of a profession, it is his own colleagues of good repute and competency who are in the reasonable position to determine the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should not be open to every person to make criticism of a medical personnel without such competency. The courts are equally deficient of required knowledge or competency to find medical person negligent except in the extreme cases of obvious and glaring acts of negligence,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

According to Justice Ssekaana, it was clear from the Council\u2019s analysis that there was no error of clinical judgment by the respondent\u2019s employees to amount to negligence as Dr. Justus Stephen Byarugaba had concluded from hearing the complainant\u2019s story after the fact as his opinion was based on hearsay without concrete facts from the file.<\/p>\n

Court also concurred with Council that \u201cthe alleged laxity as concluded by Professor Patrick Kyamanywa was merely an error that the respondent employees acting with ordinary care might have made which should never have imputed any negligence.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the final result for the reasons stated herein above, this appeal fails and the decision of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council is upheld. Each party shall meet its costs. It is so ordered,\u201d Justice Ssekaana stated.<\/p>\n

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