Mr. Prafulla Chandra Pal BSc(hons) MBBS, DTM&H, FRCS

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To our wonderful Father, Mr. Prafulla Chandra Pal BSc (hons) MBBS, DTM&H, FRCS

Died in Papworth NHS Hospital following a cardiac arrest at 14.20p.m 11-12-05

Our Father was an excellent Consultant Surgeon, who always fought for his patients. He had the reputation of operating on 'dying" patients and saving them!

Prafulla Chandra Pal our Father worked in the NHS between 1959-1982, with a brief period with the ODS - Overseas Development Service - in Africa.

He was a Big Man with a Big Personality who always believed that the 'role of a Doctor is to save his/her patients'.

During the 1970's he worked as a General Surgeon at the Good Hope NHS Hospital Trust, where he was well respected by his patients and his NHS colleagues.

In 2005 he developed a life threatening condition, aortic stenosis. During the most part of 2005 he was refused a life saving operation by Mr. Robert Bonser FRCS, Queen Elizabeth NHS Hospital Trust in the Midlands, but was eventually admitted to the Good Hope NHS Hospital suffering from a shortness of breath.

While in the Coronary Care Unit at the Good Hope NHS Hospital, our Father contracted MRSA.

He was finally offered an operation on his poorly heart and was transferred to the National Heart Centre at Papworth NHS Hospital.

His long awaited, life saving operation had to be cancelled 10-12-05 due to the severity of the MRSA infection. Prafulla Chandra Pal, our Father, suffered a cardiac arrest the following day and passed away.

Our Father had expressed on the day before he died that 'death was a better option to the inadequate treatment he had been offered by the NHS that he had once worked within'!

We, his family, 3 daughters and son-in-law are all Doctors and we watched with despair the treatment and care of our Father. Antibiotics were refused during the last week of his life. We have no doubt that the MRSA infection contributed to his death.

Our grief has been blighted by the knowledge that his treatment in an NHS Hospital was not how it should have been.

Our Father's suffering and death, having contracted MRSA in an NHS Hospital, serves as a good example to the public and to other Healthcare professionals that MRSA is indiscrimate as to who it may affect and shows the extent of the problem with MRSA within NHS Hospitals throughout the UK.

Click here to read how the family of Deceased Surgeon, Mr. Prafulla Chandra Pal, have initiated an NHS Complaint against the Papworth NHS Hospital!

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