Tinasha Ganesan Rao is declared brain dead by a private hospital within eight hours of admission for a fever.
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PETALING JAYA: From fever to fits, then death. That was how 14-year-old Tinasha Ganesan Rao spent the last few days of her life when her parents took her to Assunta Hospital to treat her fever.
The members of her family, who are completely distraught, are demanding answers from hospital personnel as to how their daughter ended up brain dead within eight hours of admission after suffering fits.
Speaking to reporters, her parents also expressed their frustration as to why they are not getting any specific answers to questions asked.
Tinasha’s mother, Uthayabavani Inthirarasa, 46, who was with her daughter throughout the ordeal, said the family lodged a police report this morning and were currently awaiting the hospital’s response as to how and why their daughter died.
She explained, ”We had three meetings with the hospital, posing many questions only to have the standard ‘I’ll get back to you on that’ answers.”
Saying they may have lost their “angel who was young and full of life” because of incompetence, Uthayabavani added, “We want to bring up the issue and get justice on this matter to help others who may face this situation, especially young children like Tinasha.”
The Petaling Jaya Assunta Secondary School student passed away at 11:40am this morning, shortly after several of her family members gave a press conference accusing the hospital of negligence.
Meanwhile the chief executive officer of the hospital, Peter TL Leong, maintained that all hospital procedures were followed and that Tinasha’s nausea was treated with the usual medication for such cases.
Leong also said that the hospital was eagerly awaiting the results of the post-mortem so that everyone could know for certain what caused the girl’s sudden death.
He added that it was also too early for Tinasha’s parents to suspect the hospital of negligence and rather than take their suspicions to the media, they should have filed for malpractice instead.
Relating the sequence of events leading to her daughter’s demise, Uthayabavani recalled taking a feverish Tinasha to the hospital at 8:30pm last Sunday.
“She had a fever that was slightly high, nothing too worrying; but I took her to this hospital instead of a clinic just to be safe,” she said.
“She was given one injection and two fever tablets in the span of three hours while waiting for admission.”
She added that by 11.30pm, after Tanisha was admitted, she vomited.
She said, “I went into the bathroom to clean up after her only to realise my daughter was given another injection after she threw up, without my consent.”
Tinasha’s father, taxi driver Ganesan Rao Balakrishnan, 47, who broke down repeatedly when talking about his daughter struggled to relate how Tinasha was given a double shot of fluids to stop the fits she later developed around 2am.
“At around 4am, Tanisha was put on oxygen to relax and next thing you know, by 6:50am they were performing CPR and trying to revive her.
“About an hour later, the specialist who showed up for the first time since admission said there were too many complications and by 3pm Monday afternoon Tinasha was declared brain dead,” he said.
The death of their beloved daughter has left Uthayabavani and Ganesan completely distraught and extremely confused as to why there were still so many questions hospital personnel were refusing to answer.
“We have many questions such as why the specialist told us later at one of our meetings that she was unaware of Tinasha’s condition and that she was not aware of any medical prescriptions given to her between the time she admitted Tinasha until 7:45am,” the girl’s father said.
“Is it the right SOP to not be in communication with the specialist on patients’ condition? How come some of the medication was given without our consent?”
Also present at the press conference was Tinasha’s uncle, Ramesh Inthirarasa, 42, and aunt Suthashini Inthirarasa, 42, who described their late niece as “bubbly, full of life, loveable”.
“To have someone so young taken away in a matter of hours over something that started with a fever… we cannot digest this, we will never accept how this escalated so quickly, and just like that, we’ve lost our baby,” said Suthashini.
Tinasha’s body is currently at University Malaya Medical Centre for a post-mortem.
PETALING JAYA: From fever to fits, then death. That was how 14-year-old Tinasha Ganesan Rao spent the last few days of her life when her parents took her to Assunta Hospital to treat her fever.
The members of her family, who are completely distraught, are demanding answers from hospital personnel as to how their daughter ended up brain dead within eight hours of admission after suffering fits.
Speaking to reporters, her parents also expressed their frustration as to why they are not getting any specific answers to questions asked.
Tinasha’s mother, Uthayabavani Inthirarasa, 46, who was with her daughter throughout the ordeal, said the family lodged a police report this morning and were currently awaiting the hospital’s response as to how and why their daughter died.
She explained, ”We had three meetings with the hospital, posing many questions only to have the standard ‘I’ll get back to you on that’ answers.”
Saying they may have lost their “angel who was young and full of life” because of incompetence, Uthayabavani added, “We want to bring up the issue and get justice on this matter to help others who may face this situation, especially young children like Tinasha.”
The Petaling Jaya Assunta Secondary School student passed away at 11:40am this morning, shortly after several of her family members gave a press conference accusing the hospital of negligence.
Meanwhile the chief executive officer of the hospital, Peter TL Leong, maintained that all hospital procedures were followed and that Tinasha’s nausea was treated with the usual medication for such cases.
Leong also said that the hospital was eagerly awaiting the results of the post-mortem so that everyone could know for certain what caused the girl’s sudden death.
He added that it was also too early for Tinasha’s parents to suspect the hospital of negligence and rather than take their suspicions to the media, they should have filed for malpractice instead.
Relating the sequence of events leading to her daughter’s demise, Uthayabavani recalled taking a feverish Tinasha to the hospital at 8:30pm last Sunday.
“She had a fever that was slightly high, nothing too worrying; but I took her to this hospital instead of a clinic just to be safe,” she said.
“She was given one injection and two fever tablets in the span of three hours while waiting for admission.”
She added that by 11.30pm, after Tanisha was admitted, she vomited.
She said, “I went into the bathroom to clean up after her only to realise my daughter was given another injection after she threw up, without my consent.”
Tinasha’s father, taxi driver Ganesan Rao Balakrishnan, 47, who broke down repeatedly when talking about his daughter struggled to relate how Tinasha was given a double shot of fluids to stop the fits she later developed around 2am.
“At around 4am, Tanisha was put on oxygen to relax and next thing you know, by 6:50am they were performing CPR and trying to revive her.
“About an hour later, the specialist who showed up for the first time since admission said there were too many complications and by 3pm Monday afternoon Tinasha was declared brain dead,” he said.
The death of their beloved daughter has left Uthayabavani and Ganesan completely distraught and extremely confused as to why there were still so many questions hospital personnel were refusing to answer.
“We have many questions such as why the specialist told us later at one of our meetings that she was unaware of Tinasha’s condition and that she was not aware of any medical prescriptions given to her between the time she admitted Tinasha until 7:45am,” the girl’s father said.
“Is it the right SOP to not be in communication with the specialist on patients’ condition? How come some of the medication was given without our consent?”
Also present at the press conference was Tinasha’s uncle, Ramesh Inthirarasa, 42, and aunt Suthashini Inthirarasa, 42, who described their late niece as “bubbly, full of life, loveable”.
“To have someone so young taken away in a matter of hours over something that started with a fever… we cannot digest this, we will never accept how this escalated so quickly, and just like that, we’ve lost our baby,” said Suthashini.
Tinasha’s body is currently at University Malaya Medical Centre for a post-mortem.
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