An unfortunate incident occurred at Siddharth Hospital in Goregaon on Thursday, when two patients died with complications after they had been injected with injections either for malaria or leptospirosis.

Other six patients, who were also injected with either of these two experienced chills and vomited.

Maghu Renu Yadav a 20 year old was among the ones who died. She was supposed to be discharged on Thursday afternoon as she already had recovered from fever.

However, when she was injected before going to sleep, she started experiencing chills, her father Tirku Yadav, who was besides her when doctors were trying to save her reported. “Before going to sleep the doctors injected her with some drug. She started getting chills,” he said.

Doctors made hard efforts to put her on intravenous fluids but failed to locate her veins. The girl struggled hard for six hours during which her hands had swollen.
The second victim was Sajida Ali Sheikh, a 24 year old who died too after experiencing vomiting and chills.

Dr Jairaj Thanekar, executive health officer of BMC informed, “Both bodies have been sent to Cooper Hospital for post-mortem. The viscera have been sent to Kalina Laboratory for chemical testing.”

Doctors feel that the anti-malarial injection, Artesunate, and the antibiotic for leptospirosis, Broadcel, might have been responsible for creating the side-effects. An insider form the hospital has informed that all the patients were given either of these two injections.

However, Thanedar feels that there was nothing wrong with the injections and it was due to leptospirosis that the patients died.