{"id":571,"date":"2014-02-25T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/downtown-man-dies-of-medical-negligence\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:52:00","slug":"downtown-man-dies-of-medical-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Downtown man dies of medical \u2018negligence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b>Srinagar: <\/b>An elderly man&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;died due to the alleged negligence of doctors\u2019 in a well-known private hospital in uptown Srinagar.<\/div>\n<div>Haji Ali Muhammad of Nabdipora locality of downtown Hawal was admitted in Florence Hospital Chanapora&nbsp;on Sunday&nbsp;by his family for the removal of gallstones, family sources told GNS&nbsp;Tuesday. At the hospital, the doctors told the family that the surgery will be done&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;after conducting all the necessary investigations.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cOn Monday, the doctors operated upon my father. Initially, the doctors told me that the surgery was successful and that my father was doing well. However, after sometime, they asked me to take my father to SKIMS Soura because of over overdose of anesthesia. I was shocked to hear the doctors,\u201d Ali Muhammad\u2019s son, Ashiq Hussain, told GNS&nbsp;Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>He said before he could realize the gravity of the situation and shift his father to the territory care hospital, the doctors declared his father dead.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe doctors told me that my father died of heart attack. I don\u2019t believe them. My father dies of the doctors\u2019 negligence. They gave him overdose of anesthesia that caused his death,\u201d Hussain said.<\/div>\n<div>He said that he has filed a complaint against the doctors at the police station Sadder seeking strict action against them for the alleged negligence.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt should be investigated whether the people who operated upon my father are doctors or not. I don\u2019t want anyone to die of negligence like my father,\u201d he said, adding \u201cThey\u2019re not doctors but butchers. I will fight for justice come what may,\u201d<\/div>\n<div>A police official confirmed to GNS that the son of the deceased has lodged a complaint against the hospital authorities. \u201cWe have received the complaint and taken up the investigations,\u201d he added. (GNS)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: An elderly man&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;died due to the alleged negligence of doctors\u2019 in a well-known private hospital in uptown Srinagar. Haji Ali Muhammad of Nabdipora locality of downtown Hawal was admitted in Florence Hospital Chanapora&nbsp;on Sunday&nbsp;by his family for the removal of gallstones, family sources told GNS&nbsp;Tuesday. At the hospital, the doctors told the family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}