WRONG INJECTION TURNS FATAL
Teacher posing as doctor kills boy, 7, with wrong jab
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bhopal:23.09.2019
A government teacher was moonlighting as a “doctor” in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district for years, and this shocking quackery went unnoticed until a seven-year-old boy died four days ago, allegedly after being given a wrong injection.
The accused, Sonawal Singh, has been suspended. Police are waiting for the victim’s viscera report to decide what action to take against him.
Dindori chief medical and health officer Dr R K Mehra told TOI that Singh was “neither eligible, nor qualified to be a medical practitioner, and certainly not authorized”.
“The postmortem has been carried out and viscera reports are still awaited. We
have given our statement to the district collector and the school education department has suspended the teacher,” said Mehra.
The victim, Anuj, lived in Kanakdhara village in Gadasarai region, about 31km from Dindori district HQ, and Sonawal Singh is a teacher at government primary school in nearby Timki Tola village.
The boy had high fever when his family took him to Singh — who was known as ‘daktar sahib’ in the area. The child died after “treatment” on September 19.
Anuj’s father Bindu complained to officials that the child died after being given a wrong injection by Singh, and demanded action against him.
Additional SP Shiv Kumar Singh said, “We have started investigating the case. The viscera test will confirm the cause of death. In the meantime, we have written to the chief medical and health officer for information on Sonawal Singh and whether he was qualified to practice as a doctor.”
Quackery is alarmingly common in Dindori, where doctors are few and far between in the rural areas. Only on September 17, a girl’s hand had to be amputated due to wrong treatment by a quack. This case, too, is being investigated, said officials.
GROWING MENACE: Quackery is alarmingly common in Dindori, where doctors are few and far between in the rural areas. Only on September 17, a girl’s hand had to be amputated due to wrong treatment by a quack. This case, too, is being investigated, said officials
Teacher posing as doctor kills boy, 7, with wrong jab
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bhopal:23.09.2019
A government teacher was moonlighting as a “doctor” in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district for years, and this shocking quackery went unnoticed until a seven-year-old boy died four days ago, allegedly after being given a wrong injection.
The accused, Sonawal Singh, has been suspended. Police are waiting for the victim’s viscera report to decide what action to take against him.
Dindori chief medical and health officer Dr R K Mehra told TOI that Singh was “neither eligible, nor qualified to be a medical practitioner, and certainly not authorized”.
“The postmortem has been carried out and viscera reports are still awaited. We
have given our statement to the district collector and the school education department has suspended the teacher,” said Mehra.
The victim, Anuj, lived in Kanakdhara village in Gadasarai region, about 31km from Dindori district HQ, and Sonawal Singh is a teacher at government primary school in nearby Timki Tola village.
The boy had high fever when his family took him to Singh — who was known as ‘daktar sahib’ in the area. The child died after “treatment” on September 19.
Anuj’s father Bindu complained to officials that the child died after being given a wrong injection by Singh, and demanded action against him.
Additional SP Shiv Kumar Singh said, “We have started investigating the case. The viscera test will confirm the cause of death. In the meantime, we have written to the chief medical and health officer for information on Sonawal Singh and whether he was qualified to practice as a doctor.”
Quackery is alarmingly common in Dindori, where doctors are few and far between in the rural areas. Only on September 17, a girl’s hand had to be amputated due to wrong treatment by a quack. This case, too, is being investigated, said officials.
GROWING MENACE: Quackery is alarmingly common in Dindori, where doctors are few and far between in the rural areas. Only on September 17, a girl’s hand had to be amputated due to wrong treatment by a quack. This case, too, is being investigated, said officials
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