Mumbai: 2-year-old dies after wrong injection by hospital sweeper

MUMBAI: A two-year-old child died after being administered the wrong injection by a nursing home sweeper in Baiganwadi, Govandi. On Thursday, the Shivaji Nagar police booked four staffers: the sweeper, a doctor, a resident medical officer (RMO) and a nurse.
The sweeper is 17 years old, so the police invoked the Juvenile Justice Act against her. Till late Thursday, no arrests had been made.
According to the police, on January 12, the two-year-old boy, Taha Khan, was admitted at Noor nursing home in Baiganwadi with complaints of fever.The doctor, before heading home, had asked the RMO to inject another patient - a 16-year-old - with the drug, Azithromycin.
"The RMO was not available and he, in turn, asked the nurse to administer the medicine to the teenaged patient. The nurse paid no heed, and the sweeper then asked if she could administer the injection instead. But instead of giving the medicine to the 16-year-old patient, the sweeper injected the two-year-old boy, who died within minutes," said Arjun Rajan, senior inspector at Shivaji Nagar police station. Cops booked the accused under section 304 (II) of the IPC.