My daughter, Shree (student of DPS Newtown, Kolkata), had to leave me on the night of 12th of September after accompanying me and giving me strength to appear in two big conferences to speak for the need of music therapy for children with clinical needs in National Trust, Delhi and “The VIII'th National Conference of IAP Childhood Disability Group” in Chandigarh on behalf of Child Development Center(CDC) - Apollo Gleneagles Hospital. My husband, Suman Mukherjee, is an IT engineer works in corporate sector.

Tragically, my innocent daughter, who was proud of her mother’s workplace, didn't know she'll be the victim of medical negligence/doctor’s incapability at the same place.

Our daughter was suffering from repeated cough and cold infection (Not being tested), vomiting, ear ache, sore throat, lethargy. She was under supervision of Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya from Paediatric Department at Apollo Gleneagles hospital, Kolkata since February 2010. She had been on Atopy treatment without doing a single medical investigation.
We had consulted Dr. Amitava Pahari (Paediatric Department) on March 25, 2011, Dr. Dev Roy (E.N.T Specialist) on July 07,2010 and Nov 09,2010 from Apollo Gleneagles Hospital.

We had consulted Dr. Apurba Kumar Ghosh on 9’th August,2011 in his chamber at S.K.Pharma at Santoshpur. Dr. Apurba Ghosh was the last doctor who had checked our daughter just a month earlier (August 9, 2011) of her death and he also didn’t bother to ask for a blood test.

We had taken our daughter to Apollo Emergency on 11’th Sept. for high fever, extreme paleness, swollen lips and eyes and she had been declared with complete clear chest and prescribed with Azithral, Crocin DS, Atarax, Zofer and Lanzol by Dr. Payal around 3pm without any investigation. We have requested for blood test as our daughter was looking very pale. However Dr. Payal has informed us that she can’t prescribe blood test and she was unable to contact Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya during that time. She declared above mentioned medicines can be given at home with frequent use of ORS water.

We admitted her in Apollo Emergency on Sept. 12, 2011 as her high fever continued with chest pain and swelling of eyes and lips. She died on the same day. On that day, after 18 months of medical care, it was found that she was suffering from leukemia; that was her first blood test in past 18 months or so. Her hemoglobin was 4.4. Every alternate month we used to take her for checkup and the doctor asked us to continue Atopy Treatment. We still don't know what is our fault and why none of the doctors had asked to do any blood tests. As non-medical people, what else could we have done?
If my daughter was diagnosed earlier, she could have received curative treatment and she could have survived by now.


Please find the chronological visit and treatment on our daughter. We have attached all copies of prescriptions on support to the following details.

Feb 16,2010
Reported Problem: Ear ache, occasional dry cough
Doctor: Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Patient Weight: 24Kg, Height 119cm
Given Medicine:
1. Flixonase Nasal Spray
2. Zoamet nasal drop
3. Telekast(10 mg)
4. Allegra
5. Uriage Emolient Cream
No medical investigation suggested.

July 07,2010
Reported Problem: Ear ache
Doctor: Dr. Dev Roy, ENT, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Given Medicine:
1. Ceruklin ear drops
No medical investigation suggested.

August 3, 2010
Reported Problem: Ear Ache, caugh and cold infection
Doctor: Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Patient Weight: 26Kg, Height 124cm
Given Medicine:
1. Ceruklin ear drops
2. Tab Allegra
3. Ciclohale inhaler(80mcg) – to be continued for 6 months
4. Salbair inhaler(50mcg) – to be continued for 6 months
5. Flixonase nasal spray
6. Zoamet
7. Telekast-L Kid
8. Uriage Emolient Cream
No medical investigation suggested.

Nov 09, 2010
Reported Problem: Ear ache
Doctor: Dr. Dev Roy, ENT, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Given Medicine:
1. Ceruklin ear drops
No medical investigation suggested.


Nov 17, 2010
Reported Problem: repeated caugh and cold infection with vomiting tendency
Doctor: Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Given Medicine:
1. Hospital nebulization with Salbair Respira solution and Salbair-I respire solution
2. Tab Omnacortil
3. Tab Lanzol junior
4. Syr Pyrigesic
5. Syr Aziwok
6. Zoamet
No medical investigation suggested.

Jan, 2011
Reported Problem: repeated caugh and cold infection with vomiting tendency, fatigueness
Doctor: Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Patient Weight: 27Kg, Height 130cm
Given Medicine:
1. Hospital nebulization with Salbair Respira solution and Salbair-I respire solution
2. Tab Omnacortil
3. Tab Lanzol junior 30
4. Budate inhaler(80mcg) – to be continued for 6 months
5. Salbair inhaler(50mcg) – to be continued for 6 months
6. Flutiflo nasal spray
7. Zoamet
8. Telekast-L Kid
9. Uriage Emolient Cream
No medical investigation suggested.


March 25, 2011
Reported Problem: Irritability, lack of concentration, fatigueness
Doctor: Dr. Amitava Pahari, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Patient Weight: 27Kg, Height 130cm
Given Medicine: None
No medical investigation suggested.

July 28, 2011
Reported Problem: Irritability, lack of concentration with vomiting tendency, fatigueness
Doctor: Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Consultant Paediatrician, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Patient Weight: 26.5Kg, Height 129cm
Given Medicine:
1. Need to be followed Atopy Treatment as the patient has raised IgE
No medical investigation suggested.

August 09, 2011
Reported Problem: Recurrent caugh and cold, sore throat, vomiting tendency, occasional ear ache and fatigueness
Doctor: Dr. Apurba Ghosh(apurbaghosh@yahoo.com)
Patient Weight: 25Kg, Height 129cm
Given Medicine:
1. Tab singulair(5mg)
2. Syr Salmucohte or continue with Salbair inhaler
3. Nasoclear nasal drop
4. Otrinoz(Paediatric) nasal drop
Only stool and urine investigation suggested.

Sept. 11, 2011
Reported Problem: Very high fever(103 or so), swollen eyes and lips, paleness (hand and leg were extremely pale), dizziness, weakness, bruise mark on places in body
Doctor: Apollo Emergency Ward (Dr. Payal), declared that patient’s chest is absolutely clear.
Given Medicine:
1. Lanzol junior
2. Zofer
3. Azitharal 250mg
4. Atarax
5. Crocin DS
Suggestion Given: Above mentioned medicines can be given at home. We can keep our child to hospital or to take her back to home as of our wish. We have taken our child back to home.

Sept. 12, 2011
Reported Problem: Very high fever(105), chest pain, coughing
Doctor: Apollo Emergency Ward(Dr. Payal) and later on moved to general ward and then to ICU
Dr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Dr. Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya, Dr. Soumya Bhattacharya
Given Medicine:
Unknown to us
Test Report as done on that day-
X-Ray: Showing a patch of pneumonia
Haematology report:
Haemoglobin: 4.4 gms%
WBC Count: 16400/Cumm
Blasts Cells: 70%
Neutrophil: 5%
Lymphocyte: 30%
Monocyte, Eosinophils, Basophil – 0
RBCs: Density markedly decreased, anisocytosis+, predominantly normocytic normochromic
Platelets: Markedly reduced on smear

Serology Report:
C-reactive Protein 7.11 mg/dl (Reference <0.5 mg/dl)
Serum procalcitonin 29.33 ng/ml
Dengue antibody(IgM and IgG) Non-reactive

Widal test: Normal

Malarial antigen: Negative

Malarial parasite: Not found from smear examination for MP

Thrombin time: 14.5 sec
Control 18.0 sec

Platelet Count: 0.10 lakh/cmm (Ref. count 1.5-4 lac/cmm)

Flowcytometry Report (Comprehensive leukemia panel)
CD 34 84.53%
HLA DR 93.66%

CD 19 94.12%
CD 10 16.32%
CD 22 51.80%
CIgM 20.39%
cCD 79a 87.41%
Impression: B-cell ALL (Pre-B type)