West Bengal: Parents slap medical negligence charge on private city hospital
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Kolkata: Negligent treatment at a city hospital has turned a one-and-half-year-old baby into a lifeless vegetative state with 80 per cent brain death.
Avighna Saha was admitted at a medical facility this September with mild dehydration having symptoms as vomiting and the baby recuperated well within a day after some IV infusion of fluid, his mother Sweety Paul Saha and father Monojit Saha, also a photojournalist, said.
The baby was supposed to be discharged the next day but was injected Potassium Chloride (KCL) directly into the peripheral IV infusion line following which he collapsed, the mother alleged.
"My son was playing on the bed but within seconds when the nurse injected him the KCL directly into the peripheral IV infusion he collapsed," the mother alleged adding that the nurse who administered the injection on the baby was never seen again in the hospital.
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