GURUGRAM: Tragedy stuck the Kumar household on Wednesday morning, as their only son died. Prateek (11) was youngest of the three kids, and he died after an alleged medical negligence by a city based private hospital . The child was brought in with diarrhea, however, he died after the he was administered a wrong injection, alleged family. The relatives protested at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, following which the matter was reported to the police.Prateek, a class 6 student at The Holy Kingdom Public School , lived with his parents and two elder sisters in Basai village. His eldest sister,22, is pursuing BSc (nursing) from AIIMS, Delhi, while, the second sister, 17, is in class 12. Prateek was suffering with diarrhea on Tuesday. His family took him to Park Hospital near Sohna Road at 5:10pm on Tuesday evening. The child was admitted to high-dependency ward where he was treated by Dr Ajay Mehta and Dr Mohindra Minocha, the pediatricians at the hospital.Prateek's mother Nirmal stayed back at the hospital with him. At around 3am, she called up her husband Ganga Vishnu Kumar and told him that the boy is feeling a little uneasy and wanted to speak to his father. The father and other relatives rushed to the hospital and reached there around 4am."Prateek was uneasy with the drips the hospital was giving. He chatted with me and I gave him water to drink. Then we asked the staff to attend him and do something about the needle as it was irritating him. They gave him an injection saying that it will help the boy. Instead, my son died within 10 minutes of it," said a teary-eyed Ganga-Vishnu Kumar, who is employed with Municipal Corporation of Delhi.The child was shifted to the ICU after the family complained of Prateek's discomfort. The family alleged that the injection was administered by a compounder in the ICU. The unit incharge was Dr Vishal. "When his condition deteriorated, we asked for a doctor, but the hospital staff told us that the doctor wont see him before 10am," alleged Kumar.Though the hospital tried chest compression to revive the child, but the efforts proved futile and Prateek was declared dead at 5:15am.The apathy by the hospital didn't end here. As if adding to the misery, the hospital made changes to the prescriptions while preparing the final report. The hospital, strike off the name of the injection that was administered to the child, and wrote another injection there. They then handed over the revised papers to the grieving parent.After this, the family lost their patience. They started protesting at the hospital at around 12:30pm. The protest ended an hour later when cops reached the hospital.Kumar filed a police complaint alleging the hospital of medical negligence and distorting facts. Following this, cops confiscated the medical reports and the body was sent for post mortem. The autopsy report too raised the suspicion over the injection. "The child died of respiratory failure and the injection - Midazolam, that was administered to him, has respiratory failure as one of the side effects. To get a second opinion, we have sent the samples for histopathology," said Dr Deepak Mathur, incharge, forensic science laboratory, Gurgaon. A detailed report by police will now be submitted to the chief medical officer, and a board will decide whether it is a case of medical negligence or not.Meanwhile, the hospital said that the child was brought in a critical condition, and he had multiple organ failure. He had a seizure and an anti- convection drug was given to him."Patient was admitted in critical condition and he was a referred case. An enteric encephalopathy with shock and dehydration was admitted in the pediatrics unit and was given IV fluids and antibiotics immediately seeing the condition. Blood Chemistry showed deranged Liver, Kidney function with raised Blood Counts (Sepsis), thrombocytopenia (multi organ failure) function. Patient's health was constantly decreasing and was taken immediately shifted to ICU during the night only and had cardio- respiratory arrest, CPR was done but the patient could not be revived. All the original medical records have been handed over to the relatives of the patient which usually hospital don't give. only the photocopies are handed over, " said the hospital in an official statement.

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