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| April 23, 2007 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 05, 1428 |
Boy’s death was caused by haemorrhage: report: Family lays blame on medical personnel
KOHAT, April 22: A three-member team of doctors which conducted post-mortem on the body of a boy who died because of alleged carelessness of the medical staff of Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH) has termed cerebral haemorrhage as the most probable cause of his death.
“This may not be so, but doctors give the most probable cause of the death and the final report is prepared after completion of several chemical examinations of samples from the body,” one of the doctors who assisted the medical team told Dawn on Sunday.
The doctors had also given different samples to police for chemical examination to confirm the allegations levelled by the victim’s family that Mohammed Saleem died because a dispenser had administered a wrong injection. The doctor said that in case of administration of wrong injection, as being alleged by the victim’s family, the patient dies instantly.
He said that the patient should have been immediately referred to Peshawar for CT scan by the doctor in the casualty section because brain damage could not be traced with the help of X-ray. The doctor on duty took it very lightly.
A CT scan machine was sanctioned for the KDA hospital six years back but has not been provided by the government yet. The Al Shifa hospital also lacks CT scan facility and people had to rush their patients either to Peshawar or Rawalpindi.
The boy was injured when a loose brick fell from a house and hit him in the head while he was passing through a street.
It is also learnt that the deceased was first taken to another doctor near his house who advised the attendants to shift him to Peshawar. But they went to the emergency of LMH where the case was mishandled.
The victim was buried on Sunday. His funeral was attended by doctors, nazims of various union councils, councillors, relatives and friends and a large number of people.
The nazims of urban-1 and Jangle Khel have demanded stern action against people whose negligence took the life of an innocent boy.
The victim’s family had lodged a complaint with the tehsil police post against the dispenser accusing him of administering a wrong injection. A police official said that it was a simple complaint registered under section 174 just to probe the case and FIR could only be lodged after completion of all investigations. No arrests had been made so far.
The two paramedics disappeared from the scene fearing attack by the public on Saturday night.
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