Mistaken for a patient, a child was accidentally administered a cat-bite antidote in a city hospital on Tuesday.
Sonu had only accompanied his mother, who had been bitten by a cat, to the Pasteur Institute here. But a nurse injected the child instead of his mother as he was sitting near the table where injections were administered.
“I went to hospital for treatment with my son Sonu. A few minutes later I saw him crying and he told me that he had been given an injection. When I asked the nurse why she did this, she replied that he was sitting near the table where the injection is given,” the woman told journalists.
Hospital authorities admitted the slip-up, but claimed that the child was unlikely to suffer any adverse consequences from the antidote. “The dose given was 0.1 ml and is not likely to cause any harm,” a hospital official said.
