Live! Baby given injection by rickshaw-puller in UP hospital dies

July 17, 2013 13:18

A seven-month-old baby, Ajay, died in the emergency ward of the Balia district hospital in eastern Uttar Pradesh, where sweepers and a rickshaw puller are asked to fill in for tasks meant only for trained medical professionals. Ajay was critical and suffering from septicemia.

The surgeon treating him had recommended a dose of a life-saving drug "Primacord" and asked the pharmacist to administer it. Instead, the pharmacist allegedly passed on the job to Raju, a rickshaw puller usually at the hospital for odd jobs like ferrying bodies. Read

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