Callousness was taken to new heights at Hyderabad's Niloufer Hospital on Sunday with 59 children being injected an antibiotic with the same syringe and needle. Reacting to the incident, Dr Mahesh Joshi, head of emergency services, Apollo Hospitals said, "The incident clearly shows violation of the fundamental rule in safe injection practices: one needle, one syringe and to be used only one time." There were chaotic scenes at the hospital with parents staging protests. According to investigations, a nurse named Prameela, who was on night shift at the hospital, injected 'Monocef' antibiotic to treat infections.
She did so by following the prescription of doctors attending to the children, aged mostly between three months and four years. The children were suffering from illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhoea, respiratory infections and viral fever, for which they were being examined. Rashes…
