Child’s death triggers stir outside hospital

Tribune News Service

Hisar, January 22

Enraged over the death of a seven-year-old boy undergoing surgery for squint on Friday afternoon, family members along with locals gheraoed a private hospital here, demanding the registration of a criminal case and the arrest of the doctor concerned.

Around 200 people accompanying the family members are sitting on the Kaimri road outside the hospital and the police have also been deployed to control the gathering. The police had to intervene when the protesters tried to barge in the hospital and use mild force to keep them away.

Mohit Wadhwa, a resident of Barah Quarters locality in the town, said he took his seven-year-old son Parth to the hospital for a squint surgery. He alleged that there was no anaesthesia specialist in the hospital and another doctor gave the child the injection but the overdose of the medicine led to his death.

He alleged that the hospital authorities referred the child to another hospital and called the police in an attempt to do away with their responsibility for the incident. The family members returned to the hospital and alleged that the negligence caused by the doctors during operation has led to the child’s death. The police also reached the spot.

Meanwhile, a police official said they would take action as per the law against the doctors on the complaint of the family members.

The family members, however, said they would not remove the body of the child from the spot until the police registered a case and arrest the erring doctors.

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