Cricket Coach’s Death: Private clinic sealed over allegations of malpractice
A private clinic in Jashore town has been sealed off following the death of a celebrated female cricket coach allegedly due to negligence and medical malpractice.
Jashore Civil Surgeon Sheikh Abu Shaheen said they shuttered Labzone Hospital on Tuesday for not having the necessary licence to provide medical services.
He said they also formed a committee, headed by himself, to investigate into the death of Suraiya Jannati Tinni, 26, who had died after being transferred to Jashore General Hospital as Labzone Hospital authorities were negligent in ensuring urgent treatment to save her life, her relatives said.
The committee has been directed to submit its report within seven working days.
Other members of the committee -- all physicians -- are Shariful Islam of Bagharpara Hospital, Zahid Hasan, medical officer at the civil surgeon's office, and Habiba Siddika of Chougachha Hospital.
Suraiya's husband Mohammad Sajjad Hossain, from Churipatti area in the town, said after his wife had a caesarean under Dr Nilufar Islam Emily of Labzone Hospital on July 29, her condition kept deteriorating. But their repeated call for urgent attention went ignored by the authorities and the caregivers therein.
Finally, on the night of July 31, Dr Nilufar paid a visit to see her patient.
But after looking at the patient from afar and without carrying any physical diagnostics, the doctor assured them that "everything was fine".
At midnight, when Suraiya's condition worsened and she began having shortness of breath and convulsions, her family members pleaded the staffers and the hospital authorities to give her urgent care.
The only response they received were annoyed faces, said a frustrated Sajjad.
They then rushed Suraiya -- the first of all female coaches who graduated from six cricket academies in the country -- to Jashore General Hospital where she passed away at the hospital's isolation ward.
Arif Ahmed, resident medical officer of Jashore General Hospital, said the patient, brought to the emergency unit with shortness of breath and convulsions, died soon after she was taken to the ward.
Nilufar Islam Emily of Labzone Hospital refuted the allegations of professional malpractice and negligence against her and the clinic and said that both Suraiya and her new born were in good health following the surgery.
But the mother's condition deteriorated suddenly as she had a "critical disease". They provided her with all sorts of medical services that were deemed necessary and there had been no incident of negligence at the clinic, she claimed.
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