He died 1 day after being discharged from the hospital... 'Wrong treatment' claim from the baby's family
After baby Gökçe, who was taken to the hospital with a complaint of teething, died shortly after being discharged, his family filed a criminal complaint alleging negligence.
Quick Look
- Gökçe Kaya, who was taken to the hospital in Antalya's Serik district with a complaint of teething, was sent home after treatment.
- The family claimed negligence regarding the death of the baby, who had bruises on his body and was pronounced dead when he was taken to hospital the next morning.
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Why It Matters
Gökçe Kaya was taken to Serik State Hospital with a complaint of high fever on October 9 and was discharged with the diagnosis of teething. The next day, when his caregiver noticed the situation, the baby was taken to the hospital and died.
Gökçe, the daughter of Duygu Nur Kaya and Murat Bahtiyar Kaya, tourism workers in Serik, was taken to Serik State Hospital with a complaint of high fever while she was teething on October 9. After the treatment given here, Gökçe and his family were sent home. The next morning, the Kaya couple left their children with a relative's caregiver and went to work. Shortly after, the caregiver said that there were bruises on baby Gökçe's body and informed the family. Later, the caregiver took Gökçe to the hospital as his condition worsened. Gökçe Kaya, whose heart was determined to have stopped when she arrived at the hospital, could not be saved. Following Gökçe Kaya's suspicious death, her body was sent to the Antalya Forensic Medicine Institute morgue for autopsy upon the instructions of the prosecutor's office. Baby Gökçe was buried in the district on October 10 by his family after the autopsy. After the funeral, the Kaya couple went to the police station and filed a complaint against those responsible, alleging negligence in the death of their child.
'THIS IS DENTAL FEVER, IT WILL NOT BE USEFUL EVEN IF YOU COME'
Making a statement to the DHA reporter, Duygu Nur Kaya said, "We went to the hospital around 20.30-21.00. My child had a fever. It was a fever that broke out suddenly. We have experienced it before and I guessed it was a tooth. The doctor looked into his mouth with a swab. He said, 'Because of the tooth.' He directed me to the nurse next door. The nurse went to the doctor, with the documents. Then, he started to prepare the medicine. He broke the brown glass tube and put medicine into half of the syringe and half of it. turuncu bir şurup çekti. Biz bunu çocuğa biraz zor içirdik. Çocuğum önce tadına bakar, sonra içer. Beğenmedi biraz ama doktor 'verin' dediği için verdik. Daha sonra çocuğu 'Müşahedeye götürün, soğuk tampon yapılacak' dediler. Müşahededeki kadın hemşire 'Burada yer yok. Dışarıda yapın, her yer dolu' dedi. Çocuğu alıp çıktık, çocuğa soğuk tampon yaptık. İçeriye girdik, 37'ydi ateşi. Doktorun yanına gittik, taburcu etti. Taburcu "It's a dental fever, even if you come, it won't help. We can't do anything about it. You will only use antipyretics. Cold tampons and a warm shower," he said. We trusted him and went home.
'BREATHING HAS CHANGED'
Explaining that she noticed that Gökçe's fever was high while she was sleeping at night, Duygu Nur Kaya said, "When I woke up, she was very hot, it was 39.8. We made a warm tampon, gave her syrup, and put her to bed. She slept until the morning, moaning. Her fever had gone down. I left her to the babysitter around 07:00. My wife was going to take me to the hotel. 10 minutes later, the babysitter called and showed the bruises on her eyebrow. 'Did you miscarry this child?' he said. We said, 'The child did not fall, we waited for him until the morning. We said, 'We would know if something happened. 10 minutes later, the caregiver called and said there were bruises under the armpit. After a while, he called and when he opened it to change his diaper, he saw that the bruises had spread more. I said, 'Wait for me, I'll be right back, let's take him to the emergency room.' 'I can't wait for you, the child's condition is very bad. "Breathing has changed, I need to take the child," he said. He called me on the road and said, 'He's not breathing.' They have already gone to the hospital. I went to the hospital, they said 'His heart had stopped'. We begged a lot and said, 'Try some more.' They performed heart massage for 1.5 hours. The doctor said: 'When he arrived, his heart had stopped. "We continued for you," he said. The last time I saw my child, he was blue and had foam at the mouth. Then they took him to the morgue, the prosecutor said, "Suspicious death." If there is a mistake on their part, I file a complaint and want it to be investigated. If there is nothing wrong with the medicine they give, I am also complaining about negligence. They could have told me, 'Wait your child for 1 hour, let's lower his fever and check the child. 'We gave him the medicine, but we don't know if he has an allergy.' They told me, 'You don't need to come back.' "I want it to be investigated, I am filing a complaint against whoever is responsible," he said.
Explaining that they went to the police station after the funeral, Duygu Nur Kaya said, "We gave our statement and explained everything. We hired a lawyer. We are waiting for the Forensic Medicine reports. We will not let it go. It was our first child."
'THE CHILD WAS DISGUSTED AND DID NOT DRINK'
Murat Bahtiyar Kaya said, "We have photos of how healthy and energetic our child is in the videos we shot before he went to the hospital. We applied to the hospital saying it was a normal dental fever. The temperature measured at the entrance was 39.8 degrees. I said, 'This child will go to the hospital after 2 degrees, isn't this child's right to the red area? Write it in the red area'. He said to me, 'You will wait'. They gave us a barcode. We waited for about 20 minutes. We went in and told the doctor. "Come," he said. He wrote the medicine on the paper and sent it to the nurse. We went to the nurse. He might have said to the doctor, "Did you write it wrong? This medicine cannot be given." Or, I don't know what the nurse said. We made him sit down and took a medicine that needed to be given intravenously. şurup çekti. Karıştırıp verdi. Çocuğa içirdik, tiksindi, içmedi. Zorla içirdik. 'Müşahedeye gideceksiniz' denildi. Gittik, 'Burada boş yatağımız yok, size pamuk vereceğim. Islatın çocuğa tampon yapın' dediler. Aldık pamuğu koridorda boş yer yok. Mecburen dışarı çıktık. O soğukta 20 dakika tampon yaptık. Sonra gittik tekrar ölçtüler 37 derece falandı herhalde. Doktora gittik, ikinci "He said, 'I'm prescribing your medications,' without doing any intervention or listening to his breathing, and they discharged us," he said.
'EVERY PART OF HER BODY WAS BLUE'
Explaining that they went to the hospital with a complaint of fever and that the child started moaning when they returned, Murat Bahtiyar Kaya said, "He had a fever again at night. The doctors said, 'Don't come again, even if you come, we won't be able to do anything. You will give the syrup and make a tampon.' If he hadn't said that, he would have said, 'The child has a fever, come to the pediatrician in the morning.' He said, 'Dental' and sent us away. In the morning, we took him to our caregiver. 10 minutes after giving it to the caregiver, the phone call came. Within 10 minutes, the woman received a phone call. iki benek görürken, bir süre sonra vücudunun her yerini sarıyor. Hızlı şekilde kendi aracıyla hastaneye götürdü. Evden çıkarken zaten çocuk hayatını kaybetmiş. Acilde 1,5 saat müdahale edildi. Saat 10.00 gibi ölüm haberini aldık. Çocuğum damar damar morarmış. Vücudunun her yeri mosmordu. Ağzı köpürmüştü. Yanlış tedavi uygulanmadıysa da çocuğun idrar testini, kan testini almadılar. 'Ateş varsa enfeksiyon da vardır' demediler. Bizi uyandırsalardı çocuk doktoruna "I am complaining about all kinds of negligence, the inadequacy of the hospital, the ignorance of the doctor, and the method of examination by inserting a wooden stick into the mouth," he said.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Announcement of the autopsy report of the Forensic Medicine Institute.
Very likely · Within weeks
Open Questions
- What is the cause of death according to autopsy?
- What is the treatment procedure applied in hospital records?




