Nashwa death case: SHCC fines hospital Rs0.5 mn, asks removal of untrained staff

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KARACHI: The Sindh Health Care Commission ordered a private hospital in Karachi to sack its untrained staff and recommended a fine of Rs0.5 million after a nine-month-old toddler Nashwa died due to medical negligence.

The investigation committee presented its initial report to Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, in which it was revealed that midwife Sobia and nursing assistant Moeez showed dereliction of duty.

Earlier, the CM Sindh had formed a committee to present a report in the case.

Nashwa passed away after suffering brain damage allegedly after being administered an excessive quantity of an injection at a private hospital in Karachi.

The report stated that the injection administered to Nashwa had adverse effects on her brain, heart and liver. According to the report, Nashwa could have survived had she been provided proper treatment at the hospital.

Meanwhile, samples taken from the minor have been sent to the forensic laboratory for testing.

Nashwa was under treatment at another private hospital on Karachi's Stadium Road after her father said she suffered brain damage owing to staff negligence.

The infant's father had registered a case against the administration of the hospital located in Gulistan-i-Jauhar locality. As per the first information report (FIR) registered on April 15, the incident took place when Qaiser Ali took his twin 9-month-old daughters to the hospital for treatment on April 6.

On the morning of April 7, one of the two children, identified as Nashwa, was allegedly administered an excessive quantity of an injection after which she started to have trouble breathing.

Ali said the 9-month-old was taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) where she was administered CPR for 45 minutes. Nashwa was then put on a ventilator.

Ali said after Nashwa was taken off the ventilator on April 12, doctors informed him that she "may have suffered brain injury" due to the CPR.

According to the FIR, a subsequent CT scan of Nashwa revealed that her hands, feet, eyes and mouth have been paralysed.

The 9-month-old was then shifted to a private hospital on Stadium Road where she passed away on April 22.