Lebogang Nyakale (2) died at the institution after she was given about three to four doses of Rocephine with the batch number 8f0040A30.
According to the mother of the child, Daphney Dumisa the nurses who gave her child the doses were negligent and she not only wants the hospital to take some form of accountability for the incident.
Dumisa also said she wants them to assist the family with the money used for the funeral and further wants them to produce the results now so that they can find out exactly the cause of death unlike the six months waiting period for the test results.
According to the dejected mother, the two toddlers would not have died if the nurses were not negligent.
“In the morning of the incident three nurses came into the room for the morning routine check-ups and started injecting back the drips into the kids because the toddlers had removed the drips the day before while playing.
“They started with the first child where they struggled for a while putting back the drip and the child started crying from the pain and eventually they put the drip in.
“After that they injected the medicine which I believe to be the Rocephine and immediately the child collapsed in the bed and when we asked why did the child fall they said the kid is just reacting from the medication.
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“They moved to the next child trying to put in the drip the child also cried and the mother told them to leave her kid alone because of the pain.
“They then moved to my daughter repeating the same process and she also started crying because they were also struggling to put in the drip and they told me to leave the room because I’m making her to cry more.
“As I was about to leave I heard her screaming in a way I have never heard before then I went back and hold her as they put in the drip and afterwards they injected the medication and she also became unconscious immediately and they left the room,” added Dumisa.
After the nurses left she could immediately see that something was wrong with her child and she approached the doctor who was attending to a new patient in the room.
He immediately took the toddler trying to resuscitate her and when that failed he took the toddler to another room.
After a while Dumisa was called into another room where she was notified that her daughter had passed.
According to her if the health workers cared so much about their patients they would have seen from the first kid that something was wrong, but they ignored it hence she wants them to take responsibility for the death of her baby.
Letaba Herald spoke to Spokesman for the Department of Health in the Province, Neil Shikwambana about the matter and at the time of going to press there was no response.
