Berhampore:
Yet another crib sheet statistic. A three-year-old girl today died at a hospital in Murshidabad district after being admitted for fever, with the parents alleging medical negligence, the police said.
Tanuja Khatun was treated at Amtala Hospital on Sunday for a carbuncle on her leg. She was not admitted since doctors claimed there was no need for it, hospital sources added.
The girl developed high fever following which she was admitted to the hospital where she died.
Denying that there was any medical negligence on the part of the hospital, Chief Medical Officer (Health), Shahjahan Siraj, said the girl died after she was referred to the hospital in Berhampore.
The victim's parents alleged that the authorities at the hospital were negligent when they refused admission when their daughter was first taken there.
Infant mortality has been a sore issue for the health administration in Bengal. The recent spate of crib deaths at Malda Medical College, BC Roy Children's Hospital and carbolic acid used as anti-spetic in the labour ward - are all cases in point.