Five-year-old boy dies during surgery, FIR against 3 doctors

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Five-year-old boy dies during surgery, FIR against 3 doctors

Wednesday, 13 January 2021 | PNS | KORBA

A five-year-old boy died after a hernia surgery in Chhattisgarh's Korba district following which police filed a FIR against three doctors, including a government surgeon, for alleged negligence, officials said on Tuesday.

No arrest has been made so far and police are conducting an investigation. The district Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) has also been asked to constitute a team of senior doctors to probe the case and submit a report, Korba's Additional Superintendent of Police Kirtan Rathore said. As per a police complaint lodged by the boy's father, a labourer from Belgari Basti here, he took his son to the district hospital on January 6 where a surgeon told him that the child was suffering from hernia and advised a sonography test. Later, the surgeon told them that the child required urgent surgery and decided to conduct the operation at a private hospital here, saying the government hospital lacks adequate facilities, SHO of Balco police station Rakesh Mishra said. On January 9, after the operation, when the man asked the surgeon about his son's health, the doctor said the child had stopped breathing.

The boy's father alleged that later, without consulting him, they shifted the child to another private hospital where doctors said the child was brought in a serious condition and died.

He accused the three doctors of negligence and causing the death of his child, the police officer said.

A FIR was registered against the three doctors on Sunday for causing death by negligence, he said.

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