Child died when an oxygen tube in burst in scanning machine!
FRIDAY, 08 FEBRUARY 2013
Five year old Buddhini Kaushalya of Mabima at Kelaniya died on the 1st due to, according to hospital sources, the explosion of an oxygen hose in the scan machine while an MRI scan was being done on her at Nawaloka Hospital. However, medical sources say scanning machines does not have oxygen tubes and children are scanned after anesthesia using another machine.
The child admitted to the hospital on the 1st met with the unfortunate accident in the afternoon. Since then until the 6th she was put on an artificial breathing machine at the ICU of the hospital. She died when the breathing machine was removed at 6.20 p.m. on the 6th on recommendations by doctors.
The post-mortem examination was conducted yesterday (7th) and Colombo Judicial Medical Officer Dr. M.N. Rahul Haq decided that the death was due to oxygen deprivation to the brain and heart for a long period. Also the JMO has stated the MRI scan test had been carried out through a machine that had not been maintained properly.
Speaking to the media the father of the child Nilanka Ratnayake has said, “My daughter was taken for the scan test in the evening on Friday (2nd). She was suffering from convulsions. That’s why she had to take the MRI scan. Her mother was in the adjoining room. According to doctors two nurses and an anesthetist are present during such a scan normally. However, only a lady doctor had been present at this occasion.
After a short time the daughter was taken for the test my wife had heard a sound like an explosion from where the scan was being done. She had run towards the scanning room. The lady doctor had shouted for help. When the child was taken out of the MRI machine her body was blue. She was given artificial respiration before entering her to the ICU. At the time my daughter was dead. The hospital lied to us. When they were told the body of the child was cold they plugged on a heater to warm it.
Until yesterday we were told the child was living. The child died due to negligence of doctors. The doctors or the hospital are not prepared to take the responsibility for the child’s death now.”
On an order by Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne the body of the child has been handed over to the father for the last rights. The Magisterial inquiry will be held on the 11th.
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