A seven-year-old boy died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday due to wrong treatment, his family has alleged.
Deceased Mohammad Sakib, resident of Dhaka's Jatrabari, was admitted to the hospital on October 19 with a locked jaw.
Around 10am yesterday, Dr Ruhul Amin conducted a surgery and then he was taken to the post-operative ward. Around 5pm, the family saw that the boy was not breathing. Later they got confirmed that the boy was dead. They tried to call the doctor his mobile phone was found switched off.
Omar Farooq, a relative of Sakib, said: “Fleeing the hospital and switching off the mobile phone after conducting a surgery show that the doctor was not honest.”
Even the DMCH authorities also failed to reach Dr Ruhul Amin’s mobile phone. They later told the boy’s family that they would take appropriate actions today. As the doctor could not be reached, it took the authorities four hours to issue a death certificate.
DMCH Assistant Director Khaja Abdul Gafur said last night that they would need to know more about the course of treatment and details of the surgery before saying if it was a case of wrong treatment.