The family of the boy claimed that the hospital said that anaesthesia was required to be administered to set right his fractured arm.
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A five-year-old boy died allegedly due to the administration of anaesthesia at a private hospital in Konni in the Pathanamthitta district in Kerala where he was taken following a fracture in his arm, police said on Friday, 2 February.
According to the parents and other family members of the child, the boy had fallen while playing in school on Thursday. They claimed that it was the hospital which said that anaesthesia was required to be administered to set right the fractured arm.
“It was only a minor dislocation, but the hospital authorities said that the arm could be set by giving anaesthesia. But our child died,” a family member told TV channels.
They gave the anaesthesia without examining the health or medical status of the child, another family member claimed.
Meanwhile, the police said that it registered a case of unnatural death based on a complaint lodged by the family on Thursday.
The family members have demanded an investigation against the private hospital.
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