A day after Delhi government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the death of a 10-year-old girl who died at a city hospital more than a month after she was allegedly taken ill following an incident at her government school in east Delhi’s Vinod Nagar, doctors from the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) said, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), for which she was being treated, can cause “absence seizures” that may be misinterpreted by educators as a lack of response.
Officials from IHBAS, aware of the matter, said the hospital submitted all the medical records of the child from the time of her first admission to Delhi Police on Tuesday.
The girl’s family had alleged that she collapsed after being made to stand at the back of her class as punishment for forgetting to bring a book. They also alleged that the school delayed taking her to hospital.
Officials said the family was informed about the child’s condition and was counselled.
Gradually, we gave her higher antibiotics. But in the background of the disease, they don’t improve. In this situation, pneumonia is the cause of death.”
An official on condition of anonymity said, “This girl after being brought to the hospital last month, had an infection in the sputum, which was detected in the culture test.
