Hospital in trouble; toddler administered expired injection

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The city police have lodged an FIR against a private hospital for allegedly administering an expired injection to a two-anda-half-year-old child.

The FIR was booked against the Sanjeevini hospital based on a complaint filed by the parents of the child at the Mahalakshmi Layout Police station in Bengaluru.

The hospital management has apologised for the incident and the staff has been suspended, police said on Saturday. Yadvi, who was suffering from high fever, was taken to the hospital on October 29.

As soon as the injection was administered through glucose drip, the child’s lips swelled and started bleeding. Later, the parents of the child got to know that the administered injection had expired.

The parents shifted the child to another hospital and lodged a complaint in this regard with the Mahalakshmi Layout Police station. Further investigation is being carried out, the police added.

Child survives after being shifted to another hospital

According to sources, a nurse at the hospital administered a medicine which had expired two months ago to the girl. Yadvi’s parents staged a protest in front of the hospital after she allegedly suffered rashes in her mouth because of the side effects of expired medicine. Yadvi’s father Kiran wrote to the Mahalakshmi Layout Medical Officer seeking action against the hospital for administering expired medicine. Yadvi was shifted to another hospital following the incident where she recovered after treatment.