Mariam Kouser discharged

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, 09/01/2014: A child joins the family members of Mariam Kouser who staged a protest in front of the Town Hall in Bangalore on January 09, 2014 seeking action against doctors who administered anaesthesia to the three-year-old girl, who is in coma and battling for life at a private hospital. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Shuttling between hospital and their house has become routine for four-and-a-half-year-old Mariam Kouser and her family.

Mariam, who had suffered brain damage owing to alleged medical negligence at the Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Jayanagar, was admitted to Manipal Hospital a week ago. She was discharged on Saturday.

After spending a week at the hospital, her father Mudassir Pasha said that he decided to take her back to her uncle’s house in Hoskote. “Her condition is the same. We admitted her for breathing problems, but her brain still continues to be in the same condition. We decided to shift her back home as she continues to be in a vegetative state,” he said.

H. Sudarshan Ballal, Medical Director, Manipal Health Enterprises said that Mariam suffered from a respiratory infection while she was in the hospital. “Now her condition is stable. There in no change in her neurological condition,” he said.