Man alleges negligence in wife’s death

the goan I network
Panaji  
The family of Najmunissa Narangi, on Monday, alleged medical negligence as the cause of her death, and said they want justice.
Najmunissa, a 36 year old from Kharebhand, fell and fractured her hand near the Margao railway track on September 20.
Her husband, Dastagir, then took her to Hospicio Hospital, where doctors declared she needed to be operated.  
Najmunissa was taken into the Operation Theatre at 10 am on September 24, reported her husband. Even though she was fit and fine before being taken in, her family never saw her again.  
A pained husband told reporters, “Doctors told us she suffered a heart attack and that afternoon, she was shifted in an ambulance to the GMC. She was in the intensive care unit till September 27, but we were not allowed to see her.”  
Dastagir also explained the pain he felt when he was called in the wee hours of the morning of September 27, and told to come and collect her body from the GMC, which he did so at around 5 am.
Coming from a poor and uninformed background, Dastagir did not ask for a post-mortem to be conducted. He also had four children between the ages of 7-15 years waiting for him at home.  
The family did not suspect foul play, however, until a source from Hospicio Hospital contacted a reporter of a
vernacular paper and informed him that it was the anaesthesia that was administered to Najmunissa that caused her heart attack and eventual death.
Since the family did not see her from the time she entered the OT till the time her corpse was taken home from the GMC, the family is unsure whether she died in the OT at Hospicio itself.  
When contacted, the dean of the GMC Dr Pradeep Naik said that the family needs to submit a complaint to the hospital before the case can be looked into for any foul play.