Akriti Bhatia, 17, suffered an asthma attack in school three day before died gasping for breath an hour later on her way to a hospital 2km away, the oxygen mask having allegedly been snatched back from her because it was “school property”. The school — one of the capital’s more expensive schools — had failed to call an ambulance or make any effort to take the Class XII student to hospital after she complained of breathlessness. Modern School, Vasant Vihar, informed her parents and waited for the car to come from their Siri Fort home, a 40-minute drive, to take her to the hospital.
Akriti’s father, Vipin Bhatia, has filed an FIR accusing the school of criminal negligence. “Neither was any qualified doctor requisitioned by the school authorities to tend to my daughter nor was an ambulance called for taking her to a hospital or a nursing home for urgent treatment and intervention in those 45 minutes to one hour that proved fatal,” the FIR says. The school principal, Goldy Malhotra, and other staff members have been named in the complaint.
A student who was witness, but requested not to be named, said: “They didn’t even have a nebuliser in school. The nurse used an oxygen mask…. Then when Akriti’s car arrived, the nurse even snatched away the oxygen mask… claiming that it was school property.” Akriti was forced to drink a glass of fresh lime soda and “choked”, the student said. The school denied this.
Principal Malhotra denied negligence. “We don’t agree that there was negligence on our part…. We have a nurse to attend to any medical emergency. We called her parents repeatedly but her mother insisted that she should be sent to her aunt’s house. The school nurse insisted that the child should be taken to hospital,” Malhotra said. But Malhotra accepted that the school had not called an ambulance. The school did not deny either that the oxygen mask had been taken back. The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights issued a notice to the school for allegedly failing to provide timely medical aid.
Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Wednesday issued a notice to Modern School, Vasant Vihar for allegedly failing to provide timely medical aid to a girl student who died in the school premises after asthmatic attack. Today akriti's mother visit school and during protest many parents gather in school and blame school for the death of student. Students also join the protest. Parents also ask for resignation of principal.
Akriti’s father, Vipin Bhatia, has filed an FIR accusing the school of criminal negligence. “Neither was any qualified doctor requisitioned by the school authorities to tend to my daughter nor was an ambulance called for taking her to a hospital or a nursing home for urgent treatment and intervention in those 45 minutes to one hour that proved fatal,” the FIR says. The school principal, Goldy Malhotra, and other staff members have been named in the complaint.
A student who was witness, but requested not to be named, said: “They didn’t even have a nebuliser in school. The nurse used an oxygen mask…. Then when Akriti’s car arrived, the nurse even snatched away the oxygen mask… claiming that it was school property.” Akriti was forced to drink a glass of fresh lime soda and “choked”, the student said. The school denied this.
Principal Malhotra denied negligence. “We don’t agree that there was negligence on our part…. We have a nurse to attend to any medical emergency. We called her parents repeatedly but her mother insisted that she should be sent to her aunt’s house. The school nurse insisted that the child should be taken to hospital,” Malhotra said. But Malhotra accepted that the school had not called an ambulance. The school did not deny either that the oxygen mask had been taken back. The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights issued a notice to the school for allegedly failing to provide timely medical aid.
Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Wednesday issued a notice to Modern School, Vasant Vihar for allegedly failing to provide timely medical aid to a girl student who died in the school premises after asthmatic attack. Today akriti's mother visit school and during protest many parents gather in school and blame school for the death of student. Students also join the protest. Parents also ask for resignation of principal.
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