A 07-year-old child from Gampola has died due to the distribution of the wrong medicine as a result of a lack of a proper prescription system at the Kurunduwatta Divisional Hospital.
According to reports, the female child had fallen ill after which her parents had taken her to the Kurunduwatta Divisional Hospital where she was prescribed medicine on a used printed paper.
The parents are said to have obtained the medicine from the pharmacy at the hospital and the child had consumed the medicine after returning home, resulting in her having diarrhoea and becoming weak.
As the child had shown other symptoms after visiting the hospital for the second time, the child’s parents had thereafter, taken her to the Gampola Base Hospital where it was found that the child had been prescribed medicines given to elders.
The hospital has found that the Kurunduwatta Divisional Hospital had prescribed medicine on a printed paper on which already medicines had been prescribed for an elderly patient which had been wrongfully given to the child.
However, the child who was made unconscious and admitted to the ICU of the Gampola Base Hospital is reported to have passed away while receiving treatment.
Investigations have found that due to a lack of paper, the Kurunduwatta Divisional Hospital has used already used prescription papers, due to which the wrong dose of medicines had been distributed to the child, resulting in her death. (NewsWire)