Click to play videoNew Delhi: Fourteen-year-old Reeda Sheikh died of H1N1 in Pune's Jahangir Hospital on August 3 this year. Now, her family has moved the National Consumer Redressal Commission, seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation from a Pune-based hospital for medical negligence.
Reeda’s relatives say she died because the hospital failed to come out with the correct diagnosis in time.
"The hospital could have told us before hand that she had flu like symptoms and we would have taken her to Naidu Hospital instead of Ruby Hall. Her sample was given in a paper bag to my brother-in-law to take to the lab,” Reeda's aunt Ayesha Shaikh said.
Until three days before Reeda’s death, she had not been diagnosed with swine flu. Instead, Reeda was being treated for pneumonia.
The family alleges it was the loss of precious days that cost Reeda her life. The family had earlier registered a criminal case against Jahangir Hospital and Ruby Hall, the lab where her tests were conducted.
"There were government circulars that said samples should be sent to a designated hospital. Jahangir hospital did not send the samples to a private lab. Is this not negligence?" Sheikhs’ lawyer Asif Lampwala said.
A committee was set up by the Health Ministry to probe Reeda's death but three months on, its findings are yet to be revealed.
For now, the Consumer Redressal Commission has asked Reeda's family to justify the amount of compensation they are claiming. The Commission will hear the case on November 17.
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