Will provide all aid to woman wrongly diagnosed with cancer:CM

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Thursday said his government will provide all assistance to the woman who was "wrongly" diagnosed with cancer and subjected to chemotherapy at a Government Medical College hospital in Kottayam.

Vijayan said doctors, who wrongly diagnosed cancer, started the medical procedure in a hurry.

"They (doctors) should not have hurried to initiate the medical procedure. They should have waited for further confirmation. Now the woman is staring at an uncertain future.

We have assured her all help. I have asked the district collector submit a report on this," Vijayan said in the state assembly.

The woman, hailing from Alappuzha district, was subjected to chemotherapy at the hospital on the basis of a report from a private lab where her sample was tested.

State Health minister K K Shailaja had earlier ordered an inquiry into the allegations that the middle-aged woman was subjected to chemotherapy treatment at the hospital on the basis of a ...