Srinagar: An elderly man on Monday died due to the alleged negligence of doctors’ in a well-known private hospital in uptown Srinagar.

Haji Ali Muhammad of Nabdipora locality of downtown Hawal was admitted in Florence Hospital Chanapora on Sunday by his family for the removal of gallstones, family sources told GNS Tuesday. At the hospital, the doctors told the family that the surgery will be done on Monday after conducting all the necessary investigations.

“On Monday, the doctors operated upon my father. Initially, the doctors told me that the surgery was successful and that my father was doing well. However, after sometime, they asked me to take my father to SKIMS Soura because of over overdose of anesthesia. I was shocked to hear the doctors,” Ali Muhammad’s son, Ashiq Hussain, told GNS Tuesday.

He said before he could realize the gravity of the situation and shift his father to the territory care hospital, the doctors declared his father dead.

“The doctors told me that my father died of heart attack. I don’t believe them. My father dies of the doctors’ negligence. They gave him overdose of anesthesia that caused his death,” Hussain said.

He said that he has filed a complaint against the doctors at the police station Sadder seeking strict action against them for the alleged negligence.

“It should be investigated whether the people who operated upon my father are doctors or not. I don’t want anyone to die of negligence like my father,” he said, adding “They’re not doctors but butchers. I will fight for justice come what may,”

A police official confirmed to GNS that the son of the deceased has lodged a complaint against the hospital authorities. “We have received the complaint and taken up the investigations,” he added. (GNS)