Chhavi had been suffering from pneumonia for the last one week and was being treated at a private clinic in Sector 12 of Noida. According to her family, she was gradually recovering.
The family of a three-year-old child, who died in a private hospital in Noida on Thursday, has accused the hospital of medical negligence, stating that the doctors on duty injected her with a wrong drug, which led to her death. A case has been registered in this regard.
Chhavi had been suffering from pneumonia for the last one week and was being treated at a private clinic in Sector 12 of Noida. According to her family, she was gradually recovering.
Her father Manoj Kumar said that on Thursday, she had developed a mild fever and was again taken to the clinic, where doctors advised them to take the child to a bigger facility. Kumar works as a junior engineer in a private company and the family lives in Gijhor area of Sector 53, Noida.
The toddler was then taken to the Sumitra Hospital, where the family was unable to find a bed for the next two hours.
"We finally got a bed in a general ward around 2 pm, where Chhavi was put on a glucose drip. A little while later, the hospital staffers injected a medicine in the drip. Within seconds, she started frothing from the mouth. She was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but she could not be saved," Kumar said, accusing the hospital authorities of administering the wrong drug.
Denying all allegations, the hospital authorities said they tried their best to save the child but the situation was out of their control.
" All was going good when all of a sudden, she had a seizure. Just as we shifted her to the ICU, she died," VK Gupta, Chairman of the Sumitra Hospital, said.
"An FIR has been lodged on the basis of the complaint by the victim's father and we are waiting for the post-mortem report. If we find the hospital authorities guilty, strict action will be taken against them," SP (City) Arun Kumar Singh said.
Efforts in vain
Denying all allegations, the hospital authorities said they tried their best to save the child but the situation was out of their control. Chhavi had been suffering from pneumonia for the last one week.
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