Ramban, Sept 3: The district administration today suspended a doctor and ordered a magisterial enquiry into the death of a teenager, hospitalized for acute diarrhoea.

 Identified as Irfan Ahmed son of Muhammad Rafeeq Bhat of Seeri in Ramban, he was admitted on Friday morning in the district hospital after he developed symptoms of acute diarrhoea. He later breathed his last on the hospital bed.

 Family members of the youth alleged that the doctor on duty called the concerned physician Dr Washeed Bali several times in view of the deteriorating condition of the patient. “However, the doctor arrived very late that lead to his death,” they alleged.

 Though doctors claimed that the treatment of the teenager was started immediately after he arrived in the hospital, the locals blamed them for the negligence and demanded their immediate arrest.

 As the news of the death due to diarrhoea spread, large number of people assembled in the hospital and took the body of the deceased and staged a protest demonstration on Jammu-Srinagar highway, disrupting the vehicular movement for several hours.

 The protestors demanded immediate action against the doctor, who according to them was responsible for the death.

 Sensing trouble Deputy Commissioner Ramban Kulbushan Mangotra immediately placed the accused doctor under suspension and ordered a probe in the matter.

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