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Negligence or lack of resources ?
Death of six year old Madlina
By Jeevani Pereira
“I don’t want to press charges, I don’t want compensation; I will give Rs One lakh of my own money to the Ragama hospital for them to develop their ICU, so that no other child will have to lose their life like my little girl did,” were the emotional words of V Manoharan, father of six year old Manoharan Madlina who died after being bitten by a Russels Viper on Sunday.
Manoharan maintains that his daughter died due to the negligence of Ragama hospital officials who seemed to be inconsiderate of the child’s plight. According to him when he asked them for an explanation the doctors in charge said that it was out of their hands and blamed the lack of a proper Intensive Care Unit.
“They told me that they could not do anything about
it and told me to ask the Health Ministry for reasons as to why the ICU was lacking,” he remarked.
Apparently Manoharan, as his daughter’s pulse began to fail, had questioned the doctors frantically if they could admit her to the ICU. “They told me that because Madlina was small they may not be able to admit her and then they told me they did not have space. They also said that they had called Kalubowila, Negombo, Gampaha and Colombo hospitals asking if it was possible to be admitted, but none had responded positively.”
Madlina a student of St Anne’s Girls School Wattala had been brought to the Ragama Hospital at around 3.30 pm after the snake had bitten her outside their house on Sunday evening Manoharan had caught the snake in a bottle and had tied Madlina’s leg above and below the wound to prevent the poison travelling after washing it with soap. “They told us that they had to monitor her for at least five hours before they administered any anti-venom, they also said that they had the treatment for any allergies caused by the anti-venom as well.”
When she became quite serious the four doctors around her seemed like they were experimenting with her, they took more than half-an-hour to prepare the anti-venom looking at a book, they spilt most of the blood they were trying to give her and did not even know when they were running out of Oxygen when she was struggling to breath,” he said.
According to her grieving parents, Madlina was awake and coherent until her very last. “She was speaking to us and she even told us not to worry that she would be alright, that Jesus would look after her,” said her mother Jenita Ratnam.
“When we reached hospital they scolded us for being ‘old fashioned’ and told us to cut the ropes tying her leg,” she continued. Jenita said that they had taken several samples of blood and put Madlina on saline. “Even they couldn’t identify the snake and kept asking my husband what it was before they took it away and identified it a few minutes later.”
It was when she started passing blood through her urine and complained of not being able to breathe by about 7.30 pm they administered anti venom into her wound and started a blood transfusion. Manoharan recalled that even when the blood bank was called no one answered and an attendant had to go to the unit and bring it himself.
By around 12 am Madlina turned for the worst and blood started coming out of her nose. “A nurse inserted a tube into her mouth to help her breath and blood just poured out of it,” he said.
“My daughter is no more and all I ask is that room is never left for this to happen to any other child. I was there when the doctors were around my girl, when her pulse was failing one of them asked the nurses if his food had been prepared because he was hungry. It was like they were doing a training course; they hardly knew what to do,” spoke a tearful Jenita.
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Negligence or lack of resources ?
Death of six year old Madlina
By Jeevani Pereira
“I don’t want to press charges, I don’t want compensation; I will give Rs One lakh of my own money to the Ragama hospital for them to develop their ICU, so that no other child will have to lose their life like my little girl did,” were the emotional words of V Manoharan, father of six year old Manoharan Madlina who died after being bitten by a Russels Viper on Sunday.
Manoharan maintains that his daughter died due to the negligence of Ragama hospital officials who seemed to be inconsiderate of the child’s plight. According to him when he asked them for an explanation the doctors in charge said that it was out of their hands and blamed the lack of a proper Intensive Care Unit.
“They told me that they could not do anything about
it and told me to ask the Health Ministry for reasons as to why the ICU was lacking,” he remarked.
Apparently Manoharan, as his daughter’s pulse began to fail, had questioned the doctors frantically if they could admit her to the ICU. “They told me that because Madlina was small they may not be able to admit her and then they told me they did not have space. They also said that they had called Kalubowila, Negombo, Gampaha and Colombo hospitals asking if it was possible to be admitted, but none had responded positively.”
Madlina a student of St Anne’s Girls School Wattala had been brought to the Ragama Hospital at around 3.30 pm after the snake had bitten her outside their house on Sunday evening Manoharan had caught the snake in a bottle and had tied Madlina’s leg above and below the wound to prevent the poison travelling after washing it with soap. “They told us that they had to monitor her for at least five hours before they administered any anti-venom, they also said that they had the treatment for any allergies caused by the anti-venom as well.”
When she became quite serious the four doctors around her seemed like they were experimenting with her, they took more than half-an-hour to prepare the anti-venom looking at a book, they spilt most of the blood they were trying to give her and did not even know when they were running out of Oxygen when she was struggling to breath,” he said.
According to her grieving parents, Madlina was awake and coherent until her very last. “She was speaking to us and she even told us not to worry that she would be alright, that Jesus would look after her,” said her mother Jenita Ratnam.
“When we reached hospital they scolded us for being ‘old fashioned’ and told us to cut the ropes tying her leg,” she continued. Jenita said that they had taken several samples of blood and put Madlina on saline. “Even they couldn’t identify the snake and kept asking my husband what it was before they took it away and identified it a few minutes later.”
It was when she started passing blood through her urine and complained of not being able to breathe by about 7.30 pm they administered anti venom into her wound and started a blood transfusion. Manoharan recalled that even when the blood bank was called no one answered and an attendant had to go to the unit and bring it himself.
By around 12 am Madlina turned for the worst and blood started coming out of her nose. “A nurse inserted a tube into her mouth to help her breath and blood just poured out of it,” he said.
“My daughter is no more and all I ask is that room is never left for this to happen to any other child. I was there when the doctors were around my girl, when her pulse was failing one of them asked the nurses if his food had been prepared because he was hungry. It was like they were doing a training course; they hardly knew what to do,” spoke a tearful Jenita.
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