NAUNDERO: A 10-year boy died of gastro at the 100-bed Government Hospital following alleged delay in treatment, here on Friday
According the victim family, a 10-year boy Ghulam Ali, son of Allah Wadhayo Jeho, resident of Muhammad Salah Jeho village, was brought to the Government Hospital here early Friday morning. His relatives alleged that the duty doctor refused to examine him saying that his duty had ended at 6am.
Another doctor joined the duty at 8am who also refused till the arrival of paramedics and this delaying tactics proved affected the boy who was suffering from gastro, following which he died in the hospital.
This infuriated the heirs and his relatives blocked Naundero-Ratodero Road by parking tractor trolleys and staged a sit-in in front of the main gate of the hospital, demanding registration of FIR against the negligent doctors.
Father of the deceased boy Allah Wadhayo, his grieved mother Sughra Khatoon, Qurban Ali, Safeer, Liaquat, Muzaffar and others said that hospitals had been built for the benefit of the poor, but when they fail to deliver, then these health care centers should be closed so that taxpayers were not bothered to go there and waste time.
They said government doctors were not considering poor patients as human beings as their child continued to suffer for three hours, but the duty doctor did not examine him at all which proved that the public sector hospital doctors were treating people like butchers. They refused to call off their protest till FIR is registered despite pursuance by DSP Shahjan Shah and SHO Shahid Memon.
They further alleged that two days ago, a woman who was bitten by a snake was also brought to the same hospital but the doctor did not provide an anti-snake venom vaccine despite availability in the stock and referred them to Chandka Medical College Hospital in Larkana for which no ambulance was even provided which is purely inhuman act