By Express News Service

ROURKELA (Odisha): The people of a slum in Rourkela went on the warpath today after a five-year-old child died following the wrong treatment allegedly provided by a doctor without a valid degree or licence.

Reports said the child was suffering from fever and was taken to an unlicensed practitioner S K Biswas three days ago. After taking those medicines, the child’s condition worsened following which his parents consulted doctors at the government hospital. But there was no significant improvement.

Further consultation at Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) and Ispat General Hospital (IGH) did not help either. The child was taken home where he died.

Doctors at IGH told the boy’s parents that the quack’s wrong treatment had caused complications.

As the news spread, residents of the slum, Gopabandhupali, ransacked the quack’s clinic and staged a road blockade demanding immediate arrest of the quack and compensation for the bereaved family.

The inspector-in-charge (IIC) of the Plant Site police station, Upendra Pradhan said no complaint has yet been received from the boy’s parents.

The inspector added that the quack’s clinic has closed and he is at large.