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.
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.