12-yr-old denied medical aide, dies on father’s shoulder
kanpur — A man has alleged that his 12-year-old son died due to negligence of the doctors at JSVM Medical College in Kanpur, a charge which the hospital authorities have refuted.
JVSM Medical College Principal Navneet Kumar on Tuesday said the child was already brought dead to the hospital and an inquiry has been ordered into the matter.
On August 28, Sunil Kumar brought his son Anshu, who was suffering from fever, to the emergency ward of Hallet hospital of JSVM Medical College.
He has alleged that the doctors asked him to go from one department to another which he did while carrying his son on his shoulder, Anshu died in the process.
Without any assistance or stretch- er, Kumar carried his son on his shoulder and took him to the children’s hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to NDTV report Kumar had earlier taken his son to the local doctors, who suggested he went to a bigger hospital for treatment. “I ran with my child on my
comes merely days after a video showing a tribal man in Odisha, carrying his dead wife on his shoulders, went viral > The tribal man in Odisha had to walk 10km shoulder and when we reached the hospital no one attended us. No one provided any assistance for 30 minutes. And when we reached the children hospital, they said if I had come in 10 minutes before, my child would have been saved”, said Kumar. A committee led by three doctors has been asked to submit a carrying wife’s body after being denied govt help > In another incident, this too from Odisha, a woman’s body had to be broken at the hip so that men could carry it on a bamboo pole report on the matter within three days, the Medical College Principal said on Tuesday. Kanpur DM Kaushal Raj Sharma has also ordered an inquiry into the matter and has formed a two-member committee comprising Additional City Magistrate and Additional Chief Medical Officer. — PTI