New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has taken suo-motu cognizance of a media report that a one-year-old child, suffering from fever and swollen neck, died as he was left unattended by the doctors at the District Hospital Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh.
NHRC has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh government calling for a detailed report in the matter, within four weeks.
NHRC has also asked to include the action taken against the delinquent doctors/ officials of the hospital concerned and the status of any relief given to the family of the deceased child by the state government in the report.
According to the media report, carried on 30th June 2020, the family of the victim child has reportedly alleged that the doctors refused to treat him and even did not bother to touch the child. The family has alleged that due to sheer negligence by the doctors, the treatment to save the life of the child was not provided in time, which resulted in the death of their son.
The District Magistrate and the CMO have reportedly denied the allegations stating that the child was brought to the hospital in very serious condition and the doctors had provided necessary medical treatment to the child.
Reportedly, a video of a man clinging to the body of his one-year-old son in his arms, his wife sitting at a distance and both crying bitterly, had also emerged from the district hospital of Kannauj on Monday.
In a statement, NHRC said," The contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of violation of human rights. This is not the first case of alleged negligence and denial of treatment to the patients by doctors in the recent past."
It has come across many such complaints and media reports where the patients even in emergency conditions were not provided necessary lifesaving treatment by the doctors, at various government-run and private hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, it added.
NHRC had taken suo-motu cognizance of the death of a pregnant lady due to alleged denial of treatment by many hospitals in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh in June.
It also emphasized upon the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the government of Uttar Pradesh to issue suitable directions to all the hospitals to comply with the Standard Operating Procedure and not to deny medical treatment to any of the patients who are being brought to the hospital for medical treatment.
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