Gurgaon: The family of an 11-year-old boy, who was admitted with diarrhoea to Park Hospital near Sohna road on Tuesday evening, and died on Wednesday morning, has alleged the boy died because he was administered a wrong injection.
Youngest of three kids, Prateek Kumar, a Class 6 student of The Holy Kingdom Public School in Sector 9B (Basai village) lived with his parents and two elder sisters in the neighbourhood. When Prateek contracted diarrhoea on Tuesday, his family admitted him to the hospital at 5.10pm, in the high-dependency ward, where he was treated by paediatricians Dr Ajay Mehta and Dr Mohindra Minocha.
Prateek's mother Nirmal stayed back with him at hospital. Around 3am, she called up her husband Ganga Vishnu Kumar and told him the boy was feeling uneasy. The father reached the hospital with relatives around 4am. "Prateek was feeling uncomfortable with the drips he was given. He chatted with me and I gave him water to drink. Then we asked the staff to do something about the needle, as it was irritating him. They gave him an injection, saying it will help him. Instead, my son died within 10 minutes," said said the boy's father Ganga Vishnu, an an MCD employee.
Though the hospital tried chest compression to revive the boy, the efforts proved futile and Prateek was declared dead at 5.15am. But, according to the family, the hospital than made changes in the prescription while preparing the final report, by replacing the name of the injection administered to Prateek with another. This was when the protest started, around 12.30pm. An hour later, police arrived there. Kumar filed a police complaint, accusing the hospital of negligence. Following this, cops confiscated medical reports and sent the body for an autopsy. "The child died of respiratory failure. The injection — Midazolam — has respiratory failure as a side effect. For a second opinion, we've sent the samples for histopathology," said Dr Deepak Mathur, in-charge, forensic science laboratory, Gurgaon.
A detailed police report will now be submitted to the chief medical officer, and a board will decide if it indeed was a case of medical negligence.
The hospital said the boy was brought in a critical condition and suffered multiple organ failure. He had a seizure and an anti-convection drug was given to him. "Patient was a referred case, and was admitted in the paediatrics unit in critical condition, suffering from enteric encephalopathy, with shock and dehydration. He was immediately given IV fluids and antibiotics. Blood chemistry showed deranged liver, kidney function with raised blood counts (Sepsis), thrombocytopenia (multi-organ failure). Patient's health was constantly decreasing and he was shifted to ICU during the night, and had cardio-respiratory arrest. CPR was done but he couldn't be revived. All original medical records have been handed over to his relatives. Usually, the hospital only gives photocopies," read the hospital's official statement.
Youngest of three kids, Prateek Kumar, a Class 6 student of The Holy Kingdom Public School in Sector 9B (Basai village) lived with his parents and two elder sisters in the neighbourhood. When Prateek contracted diarrhoea on Tuesday, his family admitted him to the hospital at 5.10pm, in the high-dependency ward, where he was treated by paediatricians Dr Ajay Mehta and Dr Mohindra Minocha.
Prateek's mother Nirmal stayed back with him at hospital. Around 3am, she called up her husband Ganga Vishnu Kumar and told him the boy was feeling uneasy. The father reached the hospital with relatives around 4am. "Prateek was feeling uncomfortable with the drips he was given. He chatted with me and I gave him water to drink. Then we asked the staff to do something about the needle, as it was irritating him. They gave him an injection, saying it will help him. Instead, my son died within 10 minutes," said said the boy's father Ganga Vishnu, an an MCD employee.
Though the hospital tried chest compression to revive the boy, the efforts proved futile and Prateek was declared dead at 5.15am. But, according to the family, the hospital than made changes in the prescription while preparing the final report, by replacing the name of the injection administered to Prateek with another. This was when the protest started, around 12.30pm. An hour later, police arrived there. Kumar filed a police complaint, accusing the hospital of negligence. Following this, cops confiscated medical reports and sent the body for an autopsy. "The child died of respiratory failure. The injection — Midazolam — has respiratory failure as a side effect. For a second opinion, we've sent the samples for histopathology," said Dr Deepak Mathur, in-charge, forensic science laboratory, Gurgaon.
A detailed police report will now be submitted to the chief medical officer, and a board will decide if it indeed was a case of medical negligence.
The hospital said the boy was brought in a critical condition and suffered multiple organ failure. He had a seizure and an anti-convection drug was given to him. "Patient was a referred case, and was admitted in the paediatrics unit in critical condition, suffering from enteric encephalopathy, with shock and dehydration. He was immediately given IV fluids and antibiotics. Blood chemistry showed deranged liver, kidney function with raised blood counts (Sepsis), thrombocytopenia (multi-organ failure). Patient's health was constantly decreasing and he was shifted to ICU during the night, and had cardio-respiratory arrest. CPR was done but he couldn't be revived. All original medical records have been handed over to his relatives. Usually, the hospital only gives photocopies," read the hospital's official statement.
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