Bangladesh News

Following a three-year old child’s death due to alleged wrong treatment at a private hospital at Dhanmondi in the capital, the girl’s relatives manhandled the hospital staff yesterday.

Fever-affected Farzana Faiza Chowdhury alias Rowshi, daughter of Shafiul Alam Chowdhury in Tajmohal Road in Mohammadpur, was admitted to the Pancare Hospital and Diagnostics at 10:30am on Thursday with fever.

After Rowshi died at the hospital at 10:00am yesterday, relatives wanted to see treatment papers and prescription. As the doctors failed to provide those, the aggrieved relatives vandalised furniture and flower tubs and got locked into a scuffle with the hospital staff.

Police rushed to the hospital, brought the situation under control and sent the body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

“Rowshi died due to wrong treatment by the doctor, Prof Chowdhury Mohammad Haidar Ali. The doctor was not available even when the patient’s condition was deteriorating today [Friday] morning,” said Rowshi’s cousin Momen Chowdhury.

He demanded stern punishment of the doctor for negligence of duty.

Prof Haidar Ali, however, said that he could not save Rowshi as her physical condition was ‘not good’.

“The girl’s mother Nasima Begum came to my private chamber in Nurjahan Road a few days ago but she made two days’ delay to bring the child to hospital,” Haider told The Daily Star yesterday night over telephone.

“I found the child very weak last night and prescribed appropriate treatment,” he said, adding that he could not know the condition of the child yesterday morning.

She was diagnosed with pneumonia and medical test reports for typhoid and others were yet to be received.

An unnatural death case was filed with Mohammadpur Police Station.