Pediatrician slapped, threatened by kin after death of 3-year-old patient in Aster CMI Hospital
Bangalore: In another unfortunate instance of violence against doctors, the relatives of a three-year-old patient allegedly assaulted a paediatrician at a Hebbal-based private hospital. The kin allegedly slapped the doctor and threatened him and even left without signing the discharge documents and paying the bill partly.
The doctor, identified as a specialist at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Aster CMI Hospital in Hebbal has filed a complaint against the assaulters. Based on the complaint, Kodigehalli police have booked the child's father Pradeep Kumar, and a relative Shiv Kumar.
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As per the latest media report by the Bangalore Mirror, the 2 years and 5 months old child was diagnosed with a viral infection to the brain during the first week of March.
As the condition of the child started deteriorating, he was shifted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Aster CMI on March 5. However, when the child's health worsened further, he was put on the ventilator, and on March 8 the doctors informed the family that the brain of the child was dead. However, his heart and other organs were functioning normally.
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