The family of a toddler who died after an emergency room doctor allegedly failed to detect a case of malaria settled its Essex County suit on Aug. 2 for $4.5 million.
In November 2014, Janai Salifu, then a year and a half old, was taken to the emergency room at University Hospital in Newark with a fever, rapid heartbeat, vomiting, hot dry skin, and dry mucus membranes. Treating physician Dr. Noah Kondamudi was informed that the family, including Janai, had returned from a trip to Ghana about three weeks earlier, which carries a risk for contracting malaria, according to the family’s attorney, David Mazie of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman in Roseland.
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