Hyderabad Nov 2 : a three-and-a-half-year-old boy in the city of Hyderabad lost his life while being admitted to a local hospital.
The infant was suffering from pneumonia and was shifted to Niloufer Hospital from a private hospital three days ago.
According to local news reports, the boy breathed his last on Saturday, after his oxygen mask was allegedly removed by the ward boy to be offered to another young patient . According to infant’s father who mentioned that the ward boy did so for not being paid a petty bribe of ₹1 100.
“He was in dire need of oxygen. Ward boy Subhash demanded ₹1 100 from us to connect the supply lines to his bed. When we refused to pay him, he just walked out of the ward,” Mohammad Azam told that minutes after he was denied the bribe, the young boy breathed his last.
According to Dr Ramesh Reddy, the ward boy Subhash who was eventually suspended after the family protested, was removed from his contractual services on grounds of asking for bribery and not because of the removal of the oxygen mask. The incident was investigated thoroughly and the initial allegation that the oxygen mask was removed was proved to be false, he told .
DCP central zone P. Vishwa Prasad, also quoted in the DC report, mentioned that the family didn’t want to lodge any complaint and the boy suffered from a severe lung ailment.