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BANGALORE: When an ailing actor-turned-politician Ambareesh was shifted to a Singapore hospital, the relatives of three-year-old Mariam Kouser, comatose for the past five months, had just one thing on their mind. They wished that their little girl too got medical care at the same facility.
Mariam's relatives, who have been waiting by her bed at Malathi Manipal Hospital, are demanding that the government take her to Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore, which specializes in the care of comatose patients.
"There was medical negligence on the part of doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma, Orthopaedics (SGITO) and it's the responsibility of the government to take care of her. We want her to get treatment at the Singapore hospital," said Mariam's uncle Alhaj B S Rafiulla. He was present at Karnataka Medical Council on Saturday for the first hearing in the case of alleged medical negligence.
The four doctors who operated on the girl at SGITO were asked to submit original documents of the treatment given. Dr Surangama Tripati and Dr Deepak, consultant anaesthetists whose services were terminated, and Dr Shivalingaiah, HoD, department of anaesthesia, and Dr Prakashappa, associate professor and orthopaedic surgeon, who were both suspended, attended the hearing.
Mariam, who was admitted to SGITO for injuries on her left elbow, slipped into a coma after she underwent a surgery on December 16. She was shifted to Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health on December 18 but the hospital did not have ventilator facilities so she was taken to Malathi Manipal Hospital. By then, she had developed hypoxia (brain damage from lack of oxygen supply).
Case goes to consumer forum
Advocate Sanketh Enagi has voluntarily taken Mariam's case to the state consumer redressal commission, stating that the child's life has been ruined because of medical negligence. "The state of government hospitals is pathetic. It's time the government wakes up to the reality in order to save lives in future. The commission has ordered notices to SGITO, the health and family welfare department and Medical Council of India," he told TOI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/34942981.cms
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11-05-2014, 10:30 AM
Dump their trash in singapore. Guess the race
