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LRH doctor ordered to appear for inquiry into child’s death
View(s):The Colombo Coroner, Deshani Samaraweera has ordered the ward doctor of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) to report to the Court on June 15 for the inquiry into the death of an eleven-year-old child admitted for treatment of a spinal injury which had led to the death of the child.
The child is reported to have died at the LRH on April 23. Giving evidence the mother of the child claimed even doctors suspected the child had been given wrong treatment which led to the death of the child. The eleven-year-old and was a student of St. John Bosco Vidyalaya. J.M.O.Colombo Dr. Rahul Haq conducted the postmortem.