Question Hour: Fortis Hospital operates on wrong leg of Delhi man; 5 staffers fired

In a brazen incident of medical negligence, doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, operated on the wrong leg of a 24-year-old man, Ravi Rai, instead of the injured one. The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has ordered an inquiry into the case of alleged medical negligence at Fortis Hospital here even as the hospital authority has sacked five of its staffers, including two orthopaedic surgeons, in this connection.