The body of a one-and-a-half-year-old male child who is believed to have died after being administered injections by a medical shop owner was exhumed on Monday evening following a complaint from its parents.
Velmurugan, who administered the dose, had closed his shop located in the remote foothill town of Thumbal in Attur taluk and had escaped.
According to officials, the child, Sreedharan, was running high temperature on July 19 and his parents, Saravanan and Sathya, bought medicines from Velmurugan.
Velmurugan also administered an injection to the boy but as the fever did not subside, the couple took their son to a private hospital in Salem the next day. However the child died there.
When the doctors spoke to the parents they admitted that Velmurugan, the medical shop owner in their town, administered injections to the child.
As the doctors raised apprehensions about the medicines, the couple lodged a complaint with Yethapur police. The police have registered a case and are investigating.
During investigations, police found that Velmurugan, who had passed only Class X, had been treating people of the town like a medical practitioner for various ailments and was also running a full-fledged clinic in the building that housed his medical shop. Sensing that the police were after him, Velmurugan absconded.
Inquiries were being held in his home village of Kottavadi, said N Thangaraj, Attur Tahsildar in whose presence the body was exhumed on Monday.
“It is not known if the man even possesses a pharmacist certificate to run the shop at least,” the Tahsildar said. Velmurugan had also switched off his mobile phone, he said.
Doctors from Attur Government Hospital took samples from the exhumed body and have sent it to a laboratory to find out whether the shopkeeper had administered the wrong medicines.
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