Two nurses have been sacked in eastern China after a five-year-old boy died within hours of being given the wrong medication last month.
Instead of giving him medication to ease pressure in the brain as prescribed, the nurses administered an intravenous drip with an antibiotic on September 8, the report said. The hospital discharged him to be transferred to the Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University that afternoon, but went into cardiac arrest on the way. Despite the father’s successful efforts to revive the boy and send him to a closer hospital, the child died that night.An initial investigation by the Yixing Health Commission determined that two duty nurses did not follow procedure and administered the wrong medicine.
The commission said medical facilities throughout the city had been told to review their medication protocols and reinforce the need for repeated checks and verification.