Sunnyside Tot Fighting For Her Life

As her parents kept a tearful bedside vigil for three-year-old Aniqa Shaon, the child hung on to life last week after her routine arm surgery left her in the throes of a coma.
Jamaica Hospital officials confirmed in a written statement that "while being placed under anesthesia Aniqa developed a reaction, which was immediately recognized, and resuscitation efforts were made by the full surgical and anesthesia team. The child was resuscitated but remains in a coma."
The grief-stricken parents were reported considering a Do Not Resuscitate order for their only daughter, but withhold a decision until receiving results of a CAT scan.
On Tuesday, Hospital spokesperson Michael Hinck said there was no change in the childs condition.
Aniqa entered the hospital for surgery last week to mend a broken arm when complications caused by the administration of anesthesia triggered a coma.
"They took my baby inside and 15 minutes later she was brain-dead," the grieving father, Jahangir Basith, 38, a Sunnyside waiter, said. "Im going to pray. Im hoping for a miracle."
The Basiths came to Sunnyside from Bangladesh 14 years ago.
The child was taken to Flushing Hospital Medical Center on August 23 when Aniqa was playing on her bed and fell and hurt her arm. She was advised by doctors there she needed surgery They recommended Jamaica Hospital.
Aniqa spent the night before the surgery, with her arm in a sling, before being admitted to the Hospital.
Hospital officials and the State Health Department were reportedly investigating the case.
Experts at the Childrens National Medical Center in Washington said anesthesia is safe and severe reactions are rare. Deaths reportedly occur only once in every 250,000 cases and are even less common among children.