Thane Toddler Given Injection, Sent Home With Broken Needle In Body

A dog bite, multiple injections and then a broken syringe needle lodged in his body - a two-and-a-half-year-old child from Kalyan near Mumbai went through this series of unfortunate events on Sunday. The last, however, was preventable, and what made it worse for the boy and his family was that doctors at the hospital refused to even acknowledge it had happened, making the toddler suffer for hours before undergoing surgery elsewhere to get the needle removed.Kavesh, from Kalyan East, was bitten accidentally by his pet dog while playing and his parents, Suryabhan and Kajal, took him to the Rukminibai Hospital, which is run by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation.Kajal said the doctors advised getting anti-rabies injections and a nurse administered three - two on the arms and one on the thigh - and marked a spot near the hip for the last one."About half an hour later, another doctor came and…