Jajpur: A minor boy died at Mugupada village under Dasarathpur police limits in Odisha’s Jajpur district after he was allegedly administered with a wrong injection by a medicine shop owner, a source said Tuesday.
The medicine store owner absconded soon after the boy’s death, police said.
According to the source, the five-year-old son of Surendra Mallick was suffering from diarrhoea. Surendra took his son to a nearby medicine store in Mandarakhanda village. Thereafter, the child was administered an injection by the medicine shop owner. However, instead of betterment, the child’s condition worsened.
Later, the boy was rushed to Jajpur District Headquarters Hospital where a doctor pronounced him dead on arrival.
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Devastated by the loss, the grieving family members lodged an FIR against the pharmacy owner at Dasarathpur Police Station. They accused the shop owner of administering a wrong injection and held him responsible for the boy’s death.
In another unrelated incident in April this year, an 11-month-old toddler lost his life due to alleged consumption of expired medicines supplied by an ASHA worker at Jajpur village of Paralakhemundi tehsil in Gajapati district.
PNN