Indian-origin anesthesiologist faces lawsuit in Rivers death

January 28, 2015 11:58

An Indian-origin anaesthesiologist is among five medical personnel who have been slapped with a multi-million dollar lawsuit in New York in connection with the death of American actress and comedian Joan Rivers (image, left).

The lawsuit has been filed in the New York state supreme court by Rivers's daughter Melissa Rivers against New York clinic Yorkville Endoscopy, the Frontier Healthcare, which has partial ownership of the clinic as well as Rivers's personal physician Gail Korovin, doctor Lawrence Cohen, anaesthesiologists Renuka Bankulla, Robert Koniuta and Suzanne Scarola.

Bankulla is a board-certified anaesthesiologist who attended medical school in India and trained in New York hospitals.

Rivers, 81, died in September last year of brain damage caused by a loss of oxygen during a routine outpatient procedure where doctors were supposed to do an endoscopy and examine her esophagus for possible causes of voice changes.

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