Teen died on holiday after bungled injection from doctor
A diabetic teenager who fell ill while on holiday died when bungling doctors injected her with a sedative instead of insulin, a report has revealed.
Izmirian Elif Akpinar, 19, had been on holiday in Manama, Bahrain, but fell ill at the airport shortly before her flight home to Turkey earlier this year.
She was taken to hospital where she was kept under observation for two days before dying of a heart attack.
A new report by the Attorney General of Bahrain suggests there was negligence and error in her diagnosis, follow-up, and treatment, the family's lawyer has alleged.
Grieving mum Aysel Cankaya claims her daughter was not given access to a translator and was given a sedative instead of insulin therapy.
Later, according to the investigation, the teen was wrongly administered psychiatric drugs used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Parkinson's disease.
Shortly afterwards, her heart stopped and she had to be brought back to life by CPR.
However Izmirian's heart stopped a second time, said the report, due to complications from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and acute kidney failure.
DKA is when the body starts to run out of insulin and harmful, life-threatening substances called ketones build up.
The earlier autopsy report - also in the investigation file - said her blood sugar level at the time had exceeded 40, when it should have been in the range of three to eight.
Her mother and lawyer Mustafa Ruhan are now preparing to sue the hospital over the alleged blunder, according to reports in Turkish media.
"We have a demand for those responsible to be found and punished and for compensation to be paid," the family's lawyer said.
- Australcope
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