Nishwa’s father makes emotional plea for children’s better medical facilities

Qaiser Ali, whose daughter dies of hospital negligence, says joint efforts needed to avoid similar tragedies in future

Father of Nishwa – a 10-month-old girl who passed away due to wrong dosage of injection at a private hospital in Karachi – made a public appeal on Monday seeking joint efforts from all quarters of society to avoid similar tragedies from reoccurring.

Speaking to the media outside a private hospital where his infant daughter was pronounced dead earlier in the day, an overwhelmed Qaiser Ali said, “May daughter fought bravely but lost her battle and tyrants won … for God’s sake please make joint efforts so that no other father had to experience what I am going through right now.”

Ali asked everyone to stay united. “Deaths will continue to occur, and nothing will be done if don’t,” he added, according to Express News.

9-month old girl Nishwa today passed away at Dar ul Sehat Hospital in Karachi. The wrong dosage of an injection appears to be the result of her death. Sheer negligence of Nursing staff and doctors. #Nishwa #DarulSehat #Darulsehathospital #Karachi @ImranKhanPTI @BBhuttoZardari pic.twitter.com/Tl04V0JYvk

— ANEEL AHMED USMANI (@UsmaniAneel) April 22, 2019

Finding it difficult to control his emotions, Nishwa’s father said that he would approach every forum to seek justice for his daughter so that others did not fall prey to such practices. “The hospital administration has accepted their mistake and admitted that they administered a high dose of injection to the child,” he said.

The victim was administered an injection at Darul Sehat Hospital, situated in Gulistan-e-Johar, earlier this week. The dosage increased her heartbeat abnormally. The infant was shifted to the hospital’s ICU where she was placed on a ventilator. According to the report of the CT scan administered at the hospital, Nishwa had become mentally paralysed.