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‘Miracle’ baby dies after triple tragedy of errors

baby girl who was mistakenly pronounced dead by doctors at Sion Hospital and startled everyone by bawling minutes before her burial lost her 10-day battle

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MUMBAI: The baby girl who was mistakenly pronounced dead by doctors at Sion Hospital and startled everyone by bawling minutes before her burial lost her 10-day battle early on Thursday.

While wary doctors kept her body in the ward for two hours, checking for the slightest hint of life, no ‘miracle’ could have saved her a second time.

Shockingly, an inquiry report has now revealed that they had stacked  up the odds against her even before she was born.

The report into the alleged medical negligence has concluded that there were several instances of “negligence”. DNA has learnt about the findings of the report that hint that the baby’s death could have been caused by the carelessness of doctors.

The report points out that senior resident doctor Dr Asma Ahmed was “rightly” suspended as she had ignored the observation of the neonatologist that the baby had gasped once. “Dr  Ahmad told the neonatologist on duty that since the baby was still-born those indications were not of much significance,” said a source from the BMC with reliable information on the report.

“The baby was lying in the ward for six hours and none of the doctors made any attempts to revive her,” the report pointed out, adding even the resident neonatologist did not find it important to call a senior.

The third person found negligent was the house surgeon who signed the death certificate without “even bothering to check the baby”, the report says.

Adding another macabre twist to  the case is the allegation by the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) that senior lecturer Dr  Amarjeet Kaur had already injected Aruna Gaikwad with abortion-inducing drug Prostodin on June 16, though the child was alive.

The inquiry report, however, is  silent on this.

A senior doctor said Prostodin could have been the final blow that killed the child. “The abortive drug must have damaged the baby’s brain beyond repair,” said the doctor.
Prostodin can only be injected before 20 weeks of pregnancy. “But in this case Aruna was 28 weeks pregnant and yet the drug was injected,” said the source. “This could have put the mother’s life at risk too,” said the source.

“But the drug does not find any mention in the case papers of Aruna,” said Dr Ravikant Singh, joint secretary, MARD, adding, “The senior lecturer committed an error in trying to abort the baby when it was still alive.”

“It was poor clinical judgment on the part of a senior doctor,” said Ameya Amritwar, president, Sion-MARD.

When asked about to comment on the report, Sion hospital dean Dr Sandhya Kamat refused to do so saying the findings were confidential.
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