A one-year-old boy died last week in a hospital in Batangas City after a nursing student inadvertently injected him with a chemical compound meant to be infused through an intravenous drip, a hospital official said Tuesday.
Dr. Renato Dimayuga, Batangas Regional Hospital director, said victim John Jesreel Halcon died of cardiac arrest shortly after the 22-year-old nursing student wrongfully injected him with potassium chloride at around 5 p.m. last Thursday.
The medicine, he said, was meant to help patients suffering from dehydration.
"It was an accident. The student nurse accidentally injected the victim with the medicine. But we're still investigating what actually happened," Dimayuga told the Philippine Daily Inquirer over the mobile phone.
"This is really unfortunate.
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