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Nurse booked over ‘wrong’ injection to woman 

Nurse booked over ‘wrong’ injection to woman 

KARACHI: Police have registered a case against a staff nurse of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), Karachi when a female patient had to be put on a ventilator allegedly after she administered her a wrong injection.

The case was registered on the complaint of the husband of the patient, Ms Saba, a mother of three.

Her husband said Saba had a successful gallbladder surgery at the ASH, alleging that her condition deteriorated suddenly after she was administered a wrong injection in her vein by the nurse.  

To save the woman’s life, the doctors immediately put her on a ventilator.

Sources say the ASH administration was reluctant to take action against the staff nurse