Probe into student’s death due to ‘medical negligence’ begins in Vizag

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A six-member committee formed by the authorities connected Tuesday began a probe into the decease of Vevina Dasari, a assemblage student, allegedly owed to aesculapian negligence astatine a backstage infirmary successful Visakhapatnam connected December 25, 2024.

The doctors of the infirmary successful question, on with the unit connected with the case, attended the enquiry astatine the King George Hospital (KGH) Superintendent’s office. D. Ramesh Kumar, farther of the deceased, besides attended the inquiry.

The committee members are Dr. D. Radha Krishnan, HoD General Medicine, Andhra Medical College (AMC); Dr. K. Murali Krishna, HoD Cardiology, Dr. VSN Murthy, HoD, Emergency Medicine, Dr. D. Ratna Prabha, Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, Dr. P. Janaki Babu, Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Dr. T. Satish Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, AMC.

Mr. Ramesh Kumar told the media that his girl complained of symptom connected December 10 past year. “We admitted her to the Hospital. We were told that her creatinine level and humor urea level were low. She was enactment connected dialysis that night. Subsequent tests connected December 13 had revealed that she was affected by sepsis,” helium said.

He alleged that the doctors hadn’t informed america astir it. “On seeing the laboratory reports aft my daughter’s death, we came to cognize that she suffered sepsis. On December 23, the doctors told america that Vevina was good and discharged her from the hospital. She felt utmost suffocation and breathlessness the precise adjacent time and we took her to the infirmary again. She passed distant the adjacent day,” helium said.

“The statements person been recorded,” Dr. I. Vani, Superintendent, KGH, told The Hindu on Tuesday evening.

Published - December 17, 2025 12:07 americium IST

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