Poison Information Centre helping doctors to lessen severity and deaths

Health workers serving throughout the country could take help from national as well as international experts through the centre’s hotline to save lives.

A few weeks ago, a five-year-old boy from Kathmandu ingested levothyroxine sodium, a medicine used to treat hypothyroidism, which his mother had brought for her treatment. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital when he developed fever and started vomiting.