Medical negligence: 4-year-old dies ‘from wrong injection’
The family demanded that the nurse be sacked and her certificate cancelled.
SARGODHA:
A four-year-old died on Tuesday allegedly from being given the wrong injection. Boy, a resident of Chak 111-South, was brought to the district headquarters hospital on Monday night with a tamarind seed stuck in one of his nostrils. Doctors treating the child said he would require a surgical removal of the seed and was admitted to the ENT ward. On Tuesday, shortly before the scheduled operation, the child’s family said that a nurse gave him an injection following which his condition deteriorated. They said the boy died within an hour. They said the body was sent to his home without a post-mortem examination. The family later protested on the street and demanded that the nurse be sacked and her certificate cancelled.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2013.
Where are we living and in what time? Where are the procedure, the training, the check sheet, the clipboard and above all the nurse's rules' of medicines? Shameful news for the district headquarter hospital. Poor kid had a simple "imly" seed up in his nose, for God's sake!