After boy’s dengue death, kin allege lack of treatment
Times of India | 10 September 2024
Kolkata: Family members of an 11-year-old buy, who died of dengue on Saturday, alleged that the boy was not provided proper treatment at Beliaghata ID hospital where he was admitted.
Srijan Saha, the class V student, was a resident of Shyamnagar area in ward 27 of South Dum Dum Municipality.
“The child was left to die without any treatment at the hospital throughout the night.We do support the ongoing junior doctors’ agitation but not at the cost of critical patients’ lives,” said a family member.
Officials at IDBG Hospital refuted the charges of service disruption due to the ongoing agitation and said senior doctors were working round-the-clock. They said the boy was brought in a precarious condition and was given all supportive treatment. “The parents decided to shift the boy to the private hospital where he died. The patient care services are running very well and there is no question of any patient not getting treatment in our hospital,” said an official.
South Dum Dum civic officials also refuted the family’s allegation of negligence, saying that the boy developed fever on Sept 1. “On Sept 2, the doctors advised tests hich were done three days later on Sept 5 when he was detected with dengue. The child’s condition had deteriorated by that time. He was brought to the South Dum Dum Municipality-run hospital by our civic health workers and was attended by a child specialist. The doctors had only said that if necessary, the boy would need to be referred to another hospital. The family then decided to take him to Beliaghata ID,” said a civic official.
At Beliaghata ID hospital, his condition reportedly continued to deteriorate. His platelets started dropping rapidly as he was shifted to a private hospital where he died late on Saturday night.
This is the first dengue death in South Dum Dum municipality area this year.