Tension prevailed at the Narla Community Health Centre (CHC) in Kalahandi district on Thursday when family members of a deceased minor boy along with locals staged a protest before the hospital alleging that medical negligence led to death of the boy.
Keeping the body of 12-year-old Manoj Senapati, nearly a hundred villagers, including his family members blocked the State Highway disrupting vehicular movements between Bhawanipatna and Madanpur.
Sources said Kaibalya Senapati of Jayantinagar area under Narla block took his son Manoj to the CHC on Wednesday night as the latter was suffering from abdomen pain.
An on-duty nurse administered two injections to the boy and asked them to go back home. After some time of reaching house, Manoj’s health condition worsened, following which Kaibalya again rushed him to the hospital.
Following a checkup, doctors at the hospital referred the boy to another hospital. But he died in the CHC after a while.
