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Infant transfused with wrong blood dies
The three-month-old boy, to whom the blood of a different group was transfused on April 15, died at Niloufer Hospital on Monday. Tension reigned as the family members of the boy staged a protest outside the hospital. A large number of police personnel were deployed at the hospital to prevent any untoward incident.
​Hyderabad: The three-month-old boy, to whom the blood of a different group was transfused on April 15, died at Niloufer Hospital on Monday. Tension reigned as the family members of the boy staged a protest outside the hospital. A large number of police personnel were deployed at the hospital to prevent any untoward incident.
The infant, M Dhruvan, was admitted to the hospital on April 6, as he was suffering from fever. On April 15, the doctors transfused O+ blood to the child. Later after few days, when Dhruvan’s father went for the blood test outside the state-run Niloufer Hospital, as the prescribed test was not available there, the private diagnostic centre confirmed the blood group of the child as A+.
Then, the family of a boy staged a protest outside the hospital. Subsequently, a negligence case was registered under Section 336 IPC (Act endangering the life of personal safety of others) with Nampally police based on the complaint of the boy’s father. He alleged that the doctors made him sign 'High-Risk Consent', which states that he would not hold the hospital staff and doctors responsible for the consequences.
After the wrong blood transfused, the parents noticed uneven swelling of the boy's head and other body parts. The Niloufer hospital management has allotted a special duty doctor to continuously monitor the health condition of the child after the transfusion of the blood. The blood quantity of 70 ml was administered due to blood deficiency in the midnight.
Speaking to The Hans India, the victim’s father said, “My child has died only due to the negligence of doctors. This ill-treatment should not happen to anyone, the perpetrators should be punished.”
However, Dr Murali Krishna denied the allegations and said, “The boy was diagnosed with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), which is a life-threatening immunodeficiency. It is similar to bone marrow cancer, with the internal infections and bleeding. In spite of the treatment, the boy’s condition was critical due to the syndrome. The treatment was given according to the procedure, we were not to blame.”
When asked about the wrongly administered blood, he said, “The blood group of the infant cannot be determined until six months, however, we have transfused a universal blood group, and the death was not due to this effect.
