Two children die of food poisoning
Their mother and a sister remained admitted in the hospital
HYDERABAD:
Two brothers died due to food poisoning in Hyderabad on Wednesday after a government hospital provided them treatment and discharged them. Four family members of Photto Khaskheli, a peasant from Adam Jamali village in Hyderabad rural, consumed poisonous food and fell unconscious on Tuesday night. They were shifted to Liaquat University Hospital from where the deceased, 16-year-old Ayaz and 8-year-old Nisar, were discharged after receiving initial medical treatment. Their mother and a sister remained admitted in the hospital. The relatives blamed the doctors who discharged the two brothers for their deaths and appealed to the authorities to take notice of the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2020.