Haryana cancels lease of Fortis Gurgaon that charged Rs 16 lakh for 15-day dengue treatment

Haryana government has cancelled the lease of Gurgaon's Fortis Hospital that charged Rs 16 lakh for a 15-day dengue treatment of a seven-year-old girl, who later died.

Adya Singh (7), diagnosed with dengue shock syndrome, was admitted to Dwarka's Rockland Hospital on August 28, with high fever.

The doctors there treated her like any other dengue patient and later after two days she was referred to Gurgaon's Fortis Hospital.

Adya was admitted in Fortis for two weeks- where over the course of her treatment she was shifted to the ICU and also incubated. But the seven-year-old's condition never improved. 

Jayant Singh, Adya's father said that the hospital kept pumping her with drugs one after the other, all the while when the family kept asking doctors to do an MRI or CT scan.

On September 14, when an MRI was finally performed, the doctors informed the parents that Adya's brain was damaged up to 80 per cent and suggested a 'body plasma transplant'- which would have costed another Rs 16 lakh.

The seven-year-old succumbed on the same day, with her parents left with a bill of 15,79,322- that adds up to more than a lakh per day. 

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