CUTTACK: The death of a three-year-old boy due to alleged medical negligence in an illegally functioning unregistered nursing home at Professor para has stirred up a hornet’s nest even as the allegations of kidney theft have been set to rest after post-mortem. The post-mortem revealed that the two kidneys of toddler Sreejit who had died under suspicious circumstances at the Jagannath Nursing Home and Research Centre were intact. “The cause of the death will be ascertained after we obtain the final post-mortem report. The hunt for the missing nursing home owner and the doctor who had operated is on,” DCP Praveen Kumar on Saturday said. A distressed district administration on Saturday also announced a drive against unregistered nursing homes and diagnostic centres to prevent such occurrences in future. A special team has been constituted under a magistrate and ADMO (PH), who would carry out intense inspections of the clinical establishments in the city and the district. “The crackdown would be on each and every establishment to determine their legal status, licences, authorisations and condition of facilities as stipulated under the Clinical Establishments (Control and Regulation) Act. We have to weed out the unscrupulous fly-by-night operators,” Collector Girish SN said. Meanwhile, locals of the Nehrupalli area along with the parents and family members of the toddler staged a sit-in at the Collectorate with the dead body demanding action against the nursing home owner and the doctor who had conducted the surgery. They also demanded compensation for the death of their baby. The death has also snowballed into a political issue with the Youth Congress on Saturday besieging the office of the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO). Accusing the CDMO of gross inaction in regulating the medical facilities and checking illegal establishments, they demanded a probe and compensation to the bereaved family.
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