Medical Negligence: Hospital starts probe into infant’s death
Relatives allege that the child died after doctors administered an injection which was supposed to make her sleep.
FAISALABAD:
Allied Hospital administration have started an inquiry into the death of a one-and-a-half year old child allegedly due to negligence by doctors on duty at the Emergency Ward of the hospital.
Some relatives of the child had staged a demonstration at the hospital and blamed the doctors for her death.
Her father Muhammad Shehzad, a resident of Guru Nanak Pura in Gujranwala, said she had died following the administration of an injection by a nurse.
“She fainted after she was given that injection.
The doctor told me it was meant to make her sleep,” he said. But, he said, the child passed away a few minutes later.
Shehzad and his family were in Faisalabad to visit a relative in Nishatabad. The child had been taken to the hospital after she suffered food poisoning and started vomiting on Thursday morning.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2012.
Allied Hospital administration have started an inquiry into the death of a one-and-a-half year old child allegedly due to negligence by doctors on duty at the Emergency Ward of the hospital.
Some relatives of the child had staged a demonstration at the hospital and blamed the doctors for her death.
Her father Muhammad Shehzad, a resident of Guru Nanak Pura in Gujranwala, said she had died following the administration of an injection by a nurse.
“She fainted after she was given that injection.
The doctor told me it was meant to make her sleep,” he said. But, he said, the child passed away a few minutes later.
Shehzad and his family were in Faisalabad to visit a relative in Nishatabad. The child had been taken to the hospital after she suffered food poisoning and started vomiting on Thursday morning.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2012.