Calcutta: The unit head of AMRI Mukundapur was suspended on Friday in connection with her alleged misbehaviour with the mother of a toddler after the child's death on Wednesday.

Jayanti Chatterjee, who was in charge of the hospital's administration, had been sent on leave on Wednesday.

The hospital had formed a six-member committee, comprising doctors and a nursing staff of the hospital, on Thursday to look into complaints of medical negligence in the treatment of two-and-a-half-year-old Oyetri Dey.

The girl had been admitted to the hospital with fever and acute bronchitis on Monday. On Wednesday morning, she vomited and convulsed after being given an intravenous injection and died.

The family has lodged an FIR with East Jadavpur police station alleging medical negligence on the part of doctors and nurses and that Chatterjee had misbehaved with the girl's mother.

"AMRI Hospitals has set up an internal committee to investigate the alleged medical negligence in the unfortunate death of Baby Oyetri Dey. The first meeting of the committee is being held today," the hospital said in a release on Friday.

The committee, which includes a paediatrician, a paediatric intensivist and the head of the pathology department, will investigate the matter.

"The committee will file its report in seven days. The unit head has been suspended pending inquiry. For the duration of her suspension, she will draw 75 per cent of her salary," Rupak Barua, group CEO at AMRI, said.

She will be called for question at the police station shortly, an officer said.

The medical negligence case will come up at the Bengal clinical establishment regulatory commission, where the girl's parents, Jayanta and Shampa Dey, filed a complaint on Thursday.

"We received the patient's 'bed ticket' on Thursday. It includes prescriptions, the time when medicines were administered and other pertinent documents," retired high court judge Ashim Kumar Roy, the commission chairman, said.

The parents of the girl have complained to the state commission for protection of human rights. The commission has sought CCTV footage of the ward where the child was admitted from the hospital.

Apollo Clinic fine

The Bengal clinical establishment regulatory commission has fined Apollo Clinic, Salt Lake, Rs 50,000 for "abnormal delay in delivering the blood test report of a woman".

The delay, "a dangerous practice", had no connection with the woman's miscarriage, though, commission chairman Roy said on Friday.

A clinic official said the hospital was still to get a copy of the order.