Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 19: Administration of Government Medical College here got an FIR registered against attendants who assaulted the resident doctors on duty after their child died in the hospital.
The FIR was registered as a step to improve security in Emergency Ward of Dept. of Paediatrics, SMGS Hospital and GMC Jammu to prevent any such events in future.
A handout stated that the child was brought to the hospital in the intervening night of December 16-17 with Cerebral Palsy and history of recurrent chest infections.
He was brought from a Private Hospital in critical condition with Broncho Pneumonia with respiratory distress.
The child was incubated and was managed appropriately by the doctors on duty but the child went into cardiac arrest.
The attendants accompanying the child refused consent for cardio pulmonary resuscitation and the child died.
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