Another girl dies in Delhi due to 'medical negligence'

In another case of medical negligence, a man has held responsibleBL Kapur Super Speciality Hospital in Karol Bagh, New Delhi for the death of his daughter.

The man alleges that his daughter passed away at the hospital due to alleged medical negligence.

He said his daughter fell sick and experienced breathingproblems and severe headache after undergoing surgery in the hospital. While the doctors consistently said that all that was normal, reports said.

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The girl had undergonea transplant surgery in the hospital.

The doctors later shifted the girl to ICU claiming that her symptoms were aresult of infection.The father added that even after shifting her to the ICU, the doctors assured him that everything was normal.

The father said "what was more shocking was when the doctors said now she will have to be shifted to a ventilator because of breathing issues. They said that this is a normal process so don't worry," media reports quoted him as saying.

The father has stated that the hospital was atfault.

The girl died on November 25th.

The incident has added to the deaths that have occurredin the Delhi-NCR region due to medical negligence.

The Delhi government recentlycancelled the licence of Max Hospital at Shalimar Bagh after the hospital incorrectly declared a newborn dead and handed over the baby to the parents in a plastic bag.

Also, an FIR has been registered against Gurugram Fortis hospital in the dengue death case.

The Haryana health department has registered an FIR under Section 304(2) of the Indian Penal Code. The hospital had charged an exorbitant amount for a dengue patient, who died later.

The parents of the victim claimed that the hospital staff kept their daughter on the ventilator for three days even after she had stopped responding to the treatment.