A disturbing incident of medical negligence has come to mild in Pakistan, the place hospital authorities have been accused of swapping a child boy with a useless child woman, the Dawn reported. According to an official assertion, the dad and mom introduced their four-day-old sick child boy to a Children’s Hospital in Lahore after he fell in poor health. During the therapy, medical doctors on the hospital declared the boy useless and handed over the physique to his father. But when the daddy took the physique to his hometown, Gujranwala, for burial, he was shocked to search out it was a woman. He instantly rushed again to the hospital with the physique of the woman, claiming that they’d introduced their child boy for therapy. 

According to Dawn, this incident has prompted an investigation. After studying of the stunning accusations, the hospital authorities launched an inquiry into the matter. Later, the hospital authorities discovered that the infant boy had reportedly gone “missing,” the official stated. 

In his formal grievance, the daddy detailed the sequence of occasions and accused the hospital of substituting his son with the useless woman’s physique. He urged the police to lodge a case towards the hospital’s managerial officers and the medical doctors involved for committing the crime and demanded the restoration of his son. 

The Punjab Health Department in Pakistan swiftly responded to the incident, forming an inquiry committee comprising three senior medical doctors from the Children’s Hospital. The crew was tasked with conducting an intensive investigation and submitting an in depth report back to uncover the reality, per the outlet.

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In its findings, the committee declared that the investigating officers questioned all of the related workers, together with medical doctors, nurses and paramedics, who remained on the neonatal unit the place the infant boy was offered therapy. They additionally examined the footage of the CCTV cameras. 

During their investigation, the hospital administration claimed that the dad and mom had themselves taken away the male child from the hospital towards medical recommendation, with out explaining the difficulty of child “exchange”. The report additionally said that the situation of the new child bought important regardless of all potential therapies, and the medical doctors shifted him to the high-dependency unit to place him on ventilator help. However, the dad and mom of the affected person refused to get additional therapy and left the hospital together with the infant after signing the Leave Against Medical Advice kind, the report stated. 

The report didn’t tackle the difficulty of the alleged change of the infants. Meanwhile, police have lodged an FIR on the grievance relating to the alleged swapping of the infant boy with the useless child woman by the hospital workers. The investigation is ongoing.