The police have filed a case of causing death due to medical negligence against the doctor after 4 months of the death of a 16-year-old girl who was admitted to a nursing home at Vasai for suspected dengue.

The action had come after doctors at Palghar district health department concluded that it was a case of medical negligence.

Kajal Choudhary, a class 10 student, was admitted to on September 16 with complaint of severe headache. The next day, she complained of uneasiness. The family alleged that the treating doctor kept them in the dark about Kajals condition and did not allow them to shift her to another hospital. And by afternoon, they were informed of Kajals death.

The body was taken for autopsy to the J J hospital but the report is still pending. The family filed a medical negligence case against the doctor at Manickpur police station and alleged that the doctor administered wrong medicine that caused her death.

Manickpur police inspector Rajendra Kamble said that Kajals medical reports are sent to the panel of doctors of the district health department. The expert panel stated that the doctor should have sought opinion of an "MD doctor". The police said that the doctor has been booked for causing death due to negligence.

Source: ET Healthworld