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Medical Negligence Alleged: Vision Loss in Two Babies

Medical negligence allegations from two families assert that their babies will endure a lifetime of vision impairment due to critical screenings that were not performed by a hospital in West Bengal.

By Sudip Ghosh and Aashiya Pal
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Medical Negligence: "Our Babies Suffer a Lifetime of Vision Impairment Because of Hospital Negligence"

At a tender age, Baby Adrita and Baby Mivaan are already experiencing a harsh reality most infants are spared. Both babies wear oversized glasses, a stark reminder of their compromised vision, which their parents allege was caused by medical negligence at Sharanya Multispeciality Hospital in Bardhaman in West Bengal. The families of these children, devastated and seeking justice, recount the harrowing experiences that have left their children with impaired vision.

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Hitesh Choudhary, father of Baby Mivaan, shared the painful details of his son’s birth. “I admitted my wife to Sharanya Multispeciality Hospital around 1:30 am on June 23, 2023, and by morning, she was deemed fit to go home. But repeated delays in her discharge kept us waiting. By evening, the hospital administered an injection that triggered sudden labour, leading to my son Mivaan's birth at 8:07 pm the very same day," Hitesh recounted. 

“My baby was born premature. Between 8:07 and 8:47, my baby was alone, without any medical supervision,” Hitesh revealed. “When finally taken to the NICU, Mivaan was declared a high-risk baby and kept under observation for 43 days, with mounting NICU charges.” For Hitesh and his family, those days marked only the beginning of a nightmare that continues as they now contend with their son’s vision impairment, a condition they believe could have been avoided with proper care.

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More Cases of Medical Negligence Unfold

During this difficult time, Hitesh encountered another couple, Manoj and Mitali, who were also at the hospital for the birth of their daughter, Baby Adrita. Hitesh, father of Baby Mivaan, recalls a moment when the fellow parent, Manoj Kumar Ghosh, cautioned him about the dangers of neglect at the hospital.

Hitesh recounted how Manoj reached out to him, warning him to insist on an ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity) screening for his newborn. "He told me, ‘In my case, the hospital neglected

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