HC notice to govt on mix-up at MY Hospital which killed 2 kids

The Madhya Pradesh High Court today served a notice to the state government over the death of two children who were administered an anaesthetic agent instead of oxygen at the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital here.
A division bench of Justices Prakash Shrivastava and Vedprakash Sharma sought the reply within ten days while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by Pramod Kumar Dwivedi.
The petition seeks Rs 25 lakh compensation to the family members of each deceased and suspension of the officials responsible for the lapse, said Dwivedi's lawyer Manish Yadav.
Rajveer (1) died on May 29 two days after he was given an anaesthetic agent, nitrous oxide, instead of oxygen while undergoing a surgery at the government-run hospital. Two days earlier, Ayush (5) died during a hernia surgery after being given the anaesthetic agent instead of oxygen.

Inquiry found out that there had been a confusion due to which the pipe which was supposed to provide the oxygen instead supplied the anaesthetic. An FIR was registered against a technician of a private company which looked after the piping system in the operation theatre.