A hospital in Rewa is facing fresh allegations of medical negligence after a young man claimed doctors gave him an anti-snake venom injection when he had actually been bitten by a dog. The man says he rushed to the government-run Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital seeking an anti-rabies shot, only to be injected with the wrong serum.
Condition worsened right after the injection
According to the family, the man was bitten by a dog the previous evening and went straight to the hospital so the anti-rabies vaccine could be administered without delay. He alleges that the doctor on duty, in a hurry, handed him an injection meant to counter snake venom instead. The man says his health deteriorated rapidly soon after the injection was given, and within a short time he lost consciousness. Family members rushed him to the emergency ward, where efforts were made to stabilise him. The episode has left the patient and his relatives shaken, and they have directly questioned how the hospital is being run. The young man has said he plans to file a formal complaint with the CM Helpline so that action can be taken against the doctor and staff responsible.
A hospital with a history of controversy
This is not the first time Sanjay Gandhi Hospital has made headlines. The facility was recently at the centre of a case involving the death of a mother and her newborn, a controversy that had not yet died down. It has also previously been accused of declaring a living person dead, a claim that had already dented public trust in the hospital's administration. With this fresh allegation now surfacing, serious questions are being raised about the level of care being taken while treating patients, and about how medicines and injections are identified before being administered.
Full picture will emerge only after an inquiry
There has been no official confirmation yet of exactly which injection the young man was given, what his medical condition was at the time, or which doctor administered it. The matter is now under scrutiny, and the truth will only become clear once the hospital administration or the health department issues an official statement. The incident has raised a larger question: if the patient was bitten by a dog, was he mistakenly given an injection meant for a snake bite, and if so, just how reliable is the hospital's system for identifying and verifying medicines and injections before they reach a patient?
