Allegations of medical negligence after child dies following injections at hospital in Kerala’s Kattakkada

Key Highlights

• Though the child was rushed in an ambulance to Neyyar Medicity hospital by a medical team, she died before reaching the hospital, around 1 a. m.
• on Monday According to reports, the child had first sought treatment for allergy-like symptoms, such as rashes on eyelids and breathlessness earlier on February 18 at CHC Aryanad.
• On Sunday, as the child seemed unwell, she was taken to the hospital at Kattakkada.
• According to the family, the child was given oxygen, followed by injections, after which her condition worsened.
• Though doctors clarified that the child was given life-saving emergency medications like epinephrine (usually administered for anaphylaxis or severe allergic reaction), the family alleged that medical negligence had led to the child’s death.