Hospital negligence claim made by family

Published on 16 Jun 2010 under category: legal

Hospital doctors have been accused of medical negligence by the family of a five-year old girl who died following several misdiagnoses, the London Evening Standard has reported.

Ayema Malik's family have said that the doctors in charge of their daughter at Central Middlesex Hospital thought she was suffering from chicken pox.

After being told they could take the girl home, Ayema's organs closed down and she died from a cardiac arrest.

She actually had a condition akin to meningitis.

Since the death in March 2007, doctors Gerald Hanson and the registrar Niveta Bajaj have been told by the General Medical Council that more thorough checks could have saved the girl's life.

Both doctors have denied misdiagnosing and failing to give accurate advice on the situation.

Speaking to the newspaper, Mr Malik said: "For a child to die in doctors' hands like this is shocking negligence. This was a catalogue of errors. They should be jailed. Struck off is not enough."

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