Ekbal’s disclosure on John is too late

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Kottayam: The new revelations by Dr B. Ekbal on the medical negligence meted out to film maker John Abraham at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital are untimely, according to Chelavoor Venu, close friend of the late film maker.
“Dr Ekbal should have made this revelation earlier. Now after so many years, this is meaningless”, Venu told DC.  He said the gross medical negligence suffered by  John may be what is encountered by many patients who go to the medical colleges in the state.
“If Dr  Ekbal had pointed out the issue earlier, considering the popularity of John, it might  have evoked good  response, and some ordinary people might have benefited from that,”  Venu added.Dr Ekbal, in a Facebook post,  admitted on Tuesday that John Abraham’s death was  due to the negligence by some doctors at the medical college. He also alleged that doctors hadn’t given preliminary treatments that should have been given to an accident victim. Dr Ekbal was a neurosurgeon at the Kozhikode Medical College then.
John Abraham was admitted to the Medical College Hospital on May 30, 1987 after he fell from the top of a  house under renovation in  Kozhikode town. Venu, who is the editor of the first exclusive psychological magazine in Kerala, ‘Psycho,’  in fact had brought John Abraham to Kozhikode, and shared a unique rapport with the late film maker.
It was in the office of Psycho John used to stay when he was in Kozhikode. Venu recalled that fateful day when John met with  the  accident. “I was in Nilambur for the  shooting of a cinema of Ravindran (Chintha Ravi). We came to know about the accident and death the next morning only.’’ Venu said  that John was a little estranged with him in the last days due to his new friends, about  whom  he had no  good opinion.