Nicholas Cox, the 16-month-old child who was hospitalised for over a month after he was allegedly given an overdose of medication, was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital on Tuesday and his mother says she was told that he had sustained brain damage.
Cox was admitted to the hospital on May 30, after he was given medication when he was taken to the institution for treatment for diarrhoea and vomiting, according to his mother. Debra Archer has said that her son’s heart stopped beating after he was given the medication by a nurse but he was resuscitated by doctors soon after and was admitted as a patient of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Archer, who has been calling for an investigation into the treatment of her son, told Stabroek News that his
