Two nurses at AIIMS Bhopal booked for giving wrong injection to child cancer patient that caused his death

Two nurses astatine AIIMS Bhopal person been booked for allegedly administering a incorrect injection, carrying a toxic chemical, to a three-year-old crab diligent who died soon after, constabulary said connected Saturday (June 13, 2026).

According to the police, the incidental took spot successful December 2025, and that an FIR was lodged aft an interior enquiry of the AIIMS recovered gross negligence connected portion of nursing officers Madhubala Sharma and Anuka Gujarati and that the origin of child’s decease was the injection. The AIIMS absorption has suspended some nurses.

The nurses person been booked nether BNS Sections 106 and 286 astatine the Bagsewania constabulary station. While Ms. Sharma allegedly administered the incorrect injection, Ms. Gujarati had near the toxic injection unattended.

DCP Bhopal Zone 2, Vikas Sehwal told The Hindu that the kid was a nonmigratory of Sagar territory and had been admitted to AIIMS for crab treatment.

“The syringe with the incorrect injection was kept adjacent and a caregiver inserted it into the drip vessel that was being administered to the child. The child’s household adjacent tried to halt the nurse, but it was excessively late. It was either formalin oregon a formaldehyde solution which are some highly toxic,” helium said.

Mr. Sehwal said that adjacent though the kid was already successful captious condition, helium died wrong an hr of being fixed the incorrect injection.

“The FIR was lodged based connected an interior probe of AIIMS which recovered negligence connected portion of the 2 nurses. We besides took the drip vessel successful possession astir 10 days agone and person sent the samples for testing,” the DCP said.

Siddharth Yadav, the child’s father, said that helium had tried to halt the caregiver who had picked up the incorrect syringe arsenic “it had an ‘F’ people connected it”.

“I tried to halt her earlier she injected it into the IV vessel but she said, ‘Am I the doc here, oregon are you?’. My lad got unconscious soon after,” Mr. Yadav said, adding that portion his lad was rushed to the Paediatric ICU, helium died soon after.