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| Effort to enter Gunnies Book lands in controversy | | 15-yr-old performs casern surgery, but sparks anger | |
NEW DELHI: The 15 year old son of two doctors performed a filmed caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in Tamil Nadu in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
Instead, the boy's father could be stripped of his licenses and may face criminal charges, officials said Thursday.
“Dr K Murugesan showed a recording of his son, Dhileepan Raj, performing a caesarean section to an Indian Medical Association chapter in Tamil Nadu last month,” said Dr Venkatesh Prasad, secretary of the association. The video showed Murugesan anesthetizing the patient.
“We were shocked to see the recording,'' Prasad told agencies, adding that the IMA told Murugesan that his act was an ethical and legal violation.
“Murugesan owns and runs a maternity hospital in the city of Manaparai,” Prasad said in a telephone interview from Manaparai.
Murugesan, who could possibly be prevented from practicing and face criminal charges for allowing his son to perform the operation, expressed no regret and accused the Manaparai Medical Association of being “jealous” of his son's achievements, Prasad added.
“He said this was not the first surgery performed by his son and that he had been training him for the last three years,'' said Prasad.
Murugesan told the Medical Association that he wanted to see his son's name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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