The child was lively, barely five, brought to a small clinic with a common concern—ear pain. What followed took less than half an hour. The doctor examined him, declared a bacterial infection, and administered two injectable drugs. Minutes later, the child collapsed. By the time he reached the government hospital, he was declared dead.
The postmortem linked the death to anaphylactic shock from the antibiotic administered. The father alleged negligence: the doctor gave a high-strength injection without proper investigation, ignored possible allergic reactions, and failed to provide emergency care. More crucially, he claimed the doctor falsely diagnosed a gram-negative infection on-the-spot—without conducting the gram staining procedure, a process that scientifically takes one to two hours.