Bengaluru: Gagana’s father files medical negligence case against hospital

BENGALURU: Venkatesh, father of 19-month-old Gagana, who allegedly died due to delay in providing treatment, is crestfallen, but angry. Determined to bring the guilty to book, Venkatesh early on Tuesday morning filed a medical negligence complaint against the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH), at the Siddapura police station.

Gagana fell from the second floor balcony of her house on Monday morning. Though her parents rushed her to St Martha’s Hospital and Nimhans, the doctors refused to admit her saying they did not have ventilators. Even at the Indira Gandhi Hospital, doctors treated the child in the ambulance for over an hour saying that all ventilators in the facility were occupied. The girl child died after she was shifted to Nimhans around 10.30 on Monday night.

After filing the complaint, Mr Venkatesh and his family left for their hometown in Koppal to conduct the child’s last rites.

Earlier talking to Deccan Chronicle, Mr Venkatesh alleged that the doctors did not even meet them at Nimhans and asked them to go to IGICH with a note. “If she had been given treatment on time, probably she would have survived,” he said.