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Child pronounced dead at hospital found alive

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FAISALABAD: 

A child pronounced dead at Allied Hospital on Tuesday is fighting for his life at the intensive care unit.

Ghulam Rasool, a relative of the child, said the baby, Ayan Hussain, aged 18 months, was brought to Faisalabad from Jhang on June 10. He had been running high temperatures for several days.

He said the child was admitted to children ward, where his condition worsened over the days.

On Tuesday, he said, it fainted. The ward in charge was informed and the duty doctor was called.

He said the doctor checked the child, pronounced him dead and issued a death certificate. The ‘body’ was handed over to the father, Muhammad Hussain.

He said on their way home, when the ambulance ran over a pothole, the jolt caused the baby to start crying.

It was rushed back to the hospital, where the nursing staff was shocked to see the baby alive. The baby was shifted to the intensive care unit.

Rasool said he found the idea that had the child not cried, it might have been buried alive scary.

He said the Health Department should take notice of the incident and cancel licences of the negligent doctor and others like him.

“Who knows how many children have been pronounced dead by the doctor when they were actually alive,” he said.

Medical Superintendent Rashid Maqbool said such mistakes were rare.

He said no such incident had ever occurred at the Allied Hospital before. He said a committee had been formed to investigate the matter. Action would be taken against the doctor, if he was found guilty of negligence, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2013.



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